It reminded me very much of my university literature teacher who would
ask questions such as: "Now why do you think the author chose this
particular word in this sentence?" and would then proceed to expound on
that word and that theme ad infinitum. I would look at it and say to
myself: "I doubt that the poor author gave more than a fleeting thought
to a single word in one sentence and you, dear instructor, don't really
have a clue about what was really going through his mind." So much
prattle on and on about so little.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> The high school History examination here has a section on
> interpreting images. Students always have trouble understanding how
> much can be drawn and interpreted from much more complex pics than
> these - I'll refer them to this argument I think with the exam coming
> up in a couple of months. Quite an amazing depth of disagreement over
> so little information. Wonderful.
> It's an excellent example of the way our paradigm colours our
> interpretation. To Sonntag and others, the understanding of what they
> are seeing is completely obvious. Once that interpretation is made it
> is defended, because every possible other interpretation is a
> challenge to one's paradigm and thus to something very intimate.
> That's why we defend our ideas to the death, even when they are
> clearly flawed and faulty. My favoured character here is the curator
> who changes his mind on a daily basis - given that we can't actually
> 'know', what else can you do but enjoy the uncertainty?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 27/09/2007, at 1:35 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>> I found this discussion interesting especially for catching the
>> bloviating Susan Sontag in an error because of lack intellectual
>> rigor. I reached that conclusion because it seems obvious to me that
>> she got the order wrong. She could not bother to look at the pictures
>> and took the word of someone else who disliked the photographer.
>>
>> http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-
>> chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/index.html?ref=opinion
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