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is the author really dead?

>> No.14530220

>>14530210
If they're dead, yes

>> No.14530226

>>14530220
Yeah it really depends on which author OP

>> No.14530230

Is God really dead?

>> No.14530235

>>14530210
every non-authour is

>> No.14530552
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>Why yes, my favorite authors are all dead. I killed them myself.

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*retroactively denies his own death*

Nope.

>> No.14531975

>>14530552
bad post, but good post

>> No.14532009

>>14530210
no, writing is a medium of communication. Communication necessitates a communicator.

>> No.14532744

>>14532009
Books are the communicator.

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>> No.14532816

>>14530210
No, he's just sleeping

>> No.14532837

>>14530210
Are you dead, OP?

>> No.14532842

And we're the ones who killed him.

>> No.14532849

>>14530210
their souls live on in their works

>> No.14532850

>>14532744
Grandpa, Netscape has become the communicator a long time ago!

>> No.14532862

>>14532009
Writing is a series of symbols, I don't know where you got your definition.

People generally create writing as a means to communicate some arrangement of ideas but as a reader why should I restrict myself to recreating their arrangement? If reading causes me to have a better arrangement of ideas than they did they can fuck off desu.

>> No.14534260

>>14532862
>writing is a series of symbols
Speech is just a series of noises. This sentence means nothing, we're talking about the subjective construct of writing not its objective makeup. If you come up with your own arrangement separate from the author then more power to you, but that doesn't change the fact that the book is intended to communicate a specific set of ideas.

>> No.14534605

>>14531975
you kidding me that's the best post

>> No.14534640

>>14530558
>black and white profile portraiy of author consuming tobacco
Why?

>> No.14534666

>>14530210
Yes only stupid americans and some englishmen are naive enough to believe in full informational transparancy in text

>> No.14534797

>>14532862
Because they were trying to communicate something with intention. Otherwise you're just reading gibberish that can mean anything. "Two-plus-two equals four" can only be interpreted so many ways.

>> No.14535892

>>14534260
>but that doesn't change the fact that the book is intended to communicate a specific set of ideas
and that doesn't change the fact that if it induces me to have better ones i don't have to give a shit about your inferior earlier ideas

>>14534797
that might be why you write but it's not why i read