I can see how you can derive a moral theme from a shopping
list (bread, milk, handcuffs, tape, spade), if you're so
inclined, but that's -- as I said before -- the reader's
interpretation. It's very far from giving a moral lesson. A
lesson requires intent on the part of the author to instruct
the reader.
Long live ambiguity,
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Robison
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Name Your
Poison
Kerry wrote:
I don't think the question is whether
literature
should give a moral lesson so much as that it
does and
unavoidably so.
*************
I agree. It is just about impossible to imagine
a
story from which a moral theme cannot be
derived.
However, it is entirely possible to not consider
the
moral aspects of a work important.
miker
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