By my reasoning, impositions of povs about aesthetics
(of limited interest, necessarily, incidentally, no matter
how well done) are by definition a subset of what I'm talking
about. a guy who writes a story about how people read stories
is doing a smaller version of the same thing.
But I want to stress again that this is basically missing the
point of the exercise. Hammett didn't write THE MALTESE
FALCON to tell you the Flitcraft story, though it's a great
story and can help you understand parts of what's going on in
the book. That's not the *point* of the book, though, the
narrative didn't act as a delivery system for that.
If all someone gets out of FALCON is something like
"life is a random, frightening thing, and in that world all a
man has to hold onto is his code, however arbitrary", yeah,
maybe, I guess. That's in there, or something close to it,
anyway.
But somehow I think our imaginary reader missed the point of
the experience.
doug
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Doug Bassett wrote:
>
> All art is "moral", if by that you mean
"the
> imposition of a point of view".
>
> ***************
> I disagree. A point of view doesn't
necessarily
> involve a moral. Maybe the point of view
concerns
> aesthetics rather than morals.
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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