From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 20:31:54 GMT
Johnny,
Johnny said:
Perhaps reading stories like this is the source of your problem with
post-modernism, it led you to a feeling that you are a reader reading the
world as its pages turn, and like all books, the author knows the truth and
lets you, the reader, in on it, while the characters grope around
tantalizingly near the truth. You think that all things that happen are
being watched by some audience who knows the truth. But you are not the
reader, none of us are, we are all characters. Even people in the future
who read our archived arguments are just characters a thousand years from
now are just characters too. Even the space aliens who cloned humanity and
built the pyramids. So when any of us talk about what is true, we can
imagine readers shaking their heads at our obstinate character.
Matt:
That is an excellent, and timely, analogy.
Matt
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