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[prog]

Suddenly I find myself a defender of modern literary theory by making two article edits and one talk-page edit on Wikipedia's Fahrenheit 451 article over the last couple of days. Weenies wander in occasionally and change it to state that the novel's about TV, not censorship, because of a very recent interview where Bradbury said as much, and therefore decades of critical interpretation are all wrong, who knew. But current thinking about "authorial intent" says that's bogus, and I agree.

I hope that the weenies move on to something else before I lose interest in this. I expect they will, really.

At the same time, I discover that I am slightly further into Odin Sphere than the most detailed GameFAQs document is. In an alternate reality I'd drop everything and make that my mission. Sheesh.

I may sometime write a document about how experience and leveling works in the game, because it's non-obvious and poorly documented. Figuring it out was a sort of puzzle, and it's really neat once you behold it in full. But I think it's not supposed to be so obscure to start with.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Not just critical interpretation, but his own past statements as well.

not to be labled a weenie....

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

But I have ALWAYS thought, without reading anything but the book, that a blanket statement that F451 is "about censorship" was shallow and missed the major impact of the book. It is about censorship, but it is about TV, it is about front porches being empty and back yards fenced off, its about a stunningly impersonal society where you put more effort into 'interacting' with the TV than with your spouse, where you only swerve to avoid hitting a person because he might hurt your car.... I swear, there's a whole generation of readers who think they are the heroes of F451 because they oppose censorship while the majority of their lives get closer and closer to the protagonist's wife.

(though I agree on the whole Death of the Author bit...)

Re: not to be labled a weenie....

[prog.livejournal.com]

I can dig it. And you are free of the weenie charge because you don't point to R.B.'s recent statements as the ultimate proof that your interpretation's the most correct one.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

Let me know when you're done with this Odin Sphere. I may want to borrow it.