Re: MD MoQ platypuses

From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 21:26:12 BST

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    Hi all

    what is a strong mis-reading? -only one with a greater distance from
    convention, that should not worry anyone round here, sounds like a good
    thing. An as a student of the history of ideas, the conventional reading is
    often very distant from the one given in the original historical context.
    Also, you can only ever read in the light of the current body of knowledge
    you hold, and that just always moves on.

    DM
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "David Buchanan" <DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 9:09 PM
    Subject: RE: MD MoQ platypuses

    > Matt, Paul and all:
    >
    > Matt wrote:
    > "The use of strong misreadings is part of an attempt to heroize and
    > villianize certain thinkers or groups in the construction of your own
    > narrative of what's going on."
    >
    > Paul asked:
    > It might help to point that out in advance; without doing so I think
    > deliberate misreading becomes misrepresentation doesn't it?
    >
    > dmb says:
    > It seems to me that "strong misreadings" are misrepresent the case whether
    > one warns in advance or not. I mean, how can such a practice be construed
    as
    > fair or honest? How is it NOT cheating? How is it different than a
    > distortion or a lie? When is talk of heros and villians anything other
    than
    > fiction?
    >
    > I'm serious. This is one of those pragmatic practices that strike me as
    > wildly controversial - at best.
    >
    >
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