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From: "Adam Martin" <ya_hoo_com@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 10:33:47 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <olag@ifi.uio.no>
> Hmm... I've said this before and will say it again, it does not
> entirely depend on what IS, but the agency we assign to it, i.e. the
> implied authorship.
> Heat.
> Green flowers.
> White pain.
> Destruction.
> Assume that the above text was written by:
> 1. your girlfriend
> 2. a simple random poem generator program
> The authorship clearly matters, a lot.
No, that's a sweeping generalization that isn't necessarily
true. I've noticed that a lot of scientists and/or highly logical
people tend to say the authorship doesn't matter, whereas many
literary people say it does. Personally, to me there is no
difference between 1 and 2 - I would (and in similar situations have
done) say that I think its rubbish either way (if thats what I
thought based purely on an evaluation of the text).
It strikes me as being similar to the great question about whether a
landscape can actively cause feelings and thoughts in people, or
whether people merely react and respond to their perceptions and
generate their own feelings and thoughts as a reaction. The Romantic
poets believed the former; I still find it hard to agree, although
after studying them I could at least appreciate their
viewpoint. Just as I can appreciate your viewpoint - but I still
think the authorship doesn't matter!
Adam M
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