Why should you believe anything I post?
My perspective on the idea of being able to trust a narrator completely diminished when my junior year in college. Novels became more about how one interpets them then the key points an author tries to convey. The normal thing to assume before diving into a novel is that background information on the author is necessary to obtain in order for one to truly enjoy or even comprehend the book. However, I beg to disagree. An authors job is too take a reader out of their element and throw them into a new world. A world where language is different but fun and a world where people look strange. Strange is good in the sense that strange relays uniqueness. If only reserved authors could experience a world without limits, authenticity would not be problematic? maybe not.
Getting back to my original thought, taking my work serious is like riding a roller coaster that does not have safety belts. So, do not proceed to do so. Some things I will tell you will most certainly throw you off. That is what you want right? reading a dull blog is no one's fantasy! I would never subject my readers to a traditional story. Tradition means prehistoric. Modernity has caused many authors to stray from tradition because the demand for novels that has discourse on taboo topics is high. I will join the force then. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll it is.
Understanding my intent will cause you to hate yourself. Do not attempt to make sense of my work. Just enjoy it! "Try to pry yourself away from the things you were taught," my first english professor at Loyola University told me. You have no idea how angry I was at her. I felt like everything I was had learned up until that point was useless. It definitely was so I started over. I was forced to stop summarizing. That was the first step. Secondly, I had to stop trying to deconstruct a text and attach one specific meaning. Reality is, texts has a thousand different meanings. Authors subconsciously convey things and readers tend to pick up on those rather than the author's key points.
SO you are all screwed!
My perspective on the idea of being able to trust a narrator completely diminished when my junior year in college. Novels became more about how one interpets them then the key points an author tries to convey. The normal thing to assume before diving into a novel is that background information on the author is necessary to obtain in order for one to truly enjoy or even comprehend the book. However, I beg to disagree. An authors job is too take a reader out of their element and throw them into a new world. A world where language is different but fun and a world where people look strange. Strange is good in the sense that strange relays uniqueness. If only reserved authors could experience a world without limits, authenticity would not be problematic? maybe not.
Getting back to my original thought, taking my work serious is like riding a roller coaster that does not have safety belts. So, do not proceed to do so. Some things I will tell you will most certainly throw you off. That is what you want right? reading a dull blog is no one's fantasy! I would never subject my readers to a traditional story. Tradition means prehistoric. Modernity has caused many authors to stray from tradition because the demand for novels that has discourse on taboo topics is high. I will join the force then. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll it is.
Understanding my intent will cause you to hate yourself. Do not attempt to make sense of my work. Just enjoy it! "Try to pry yourself away from the things you were taught," my first english professor at Loyola University told me. You have no idea how angry I was at her. I felt like everything I was had learned up until that point was useless. It definitely was so I started over. I was forced to stop summarizing. That was the first step. Secondly, I had to stop trying to deconstruct a text and attach one specific meaning. Reality is, texts has a thousand different meanings. Authors subconsciously convey things and readers tend to pick up on those rather than the author's key points.
SO you are all screwed!
I appreciate your last paragraph especially. I agree that authors can have a million and one different meanings. I like how you begin by asking the reader a question. You engage the reader but then disassociate yourself from the reader telling us not to trust you. Very provocative.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't what the author is—even subconsciously—conveying in fact be the "key" points? To someone, perhaps? I like to think that everything I find is somehow there, in the text, and somehow, for that reason, important. But that's just me. And maybe I'm screwed.
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