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I'm making a bookbug page: https://the0bserver.neocities.org/bookbug . Decided to participate too and this made me work on my site that was idle since 2022

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bookbug 9 months ago

Happy you're joining & that it brought you out of retirement! Do you have a button we can link you with? The one on your homepage won't load.

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bookbug 9 months ago

If not we can use a text link- Vashti

the0bserver 9 months ago

I fixed the code of the image on my homepage, I think is working now. The link of the button it's this https://i.imgur.com/nrWeEzY.png

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bookbug 9 months ago

just added you to the member list! thanks for joining <3 - maple

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the0bserver

9 months ago

I'm sad, cuz I was codding on codepen and when I put the code here it was all cursed, everything is out of place... I'm tired

letslearntogether 9 months ago

It is a bummer when what we've worked hard on gets all garbled up, but it is also a joy when we manage to fix it. I hope you find the issue easily and get it to your liking! 😊

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the0bserver 9 months ago

When I discover how to fix it I'll definitely cry a lot 🤡. Thanks, I'll work on it.

readingproject suboptimalism

9 months ago

On the blue curtain question. Think of reading as like directing a Shakespeare play. Each performance is different and modern performances would be nothing like those staged in Shakespeare's era. That's because the director (or the reader who reads a book) brings their own experience and context to the text. As in Reader Response theory: the reader writes. A text only exists in the act of its being interpreted

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readingproject 9 months ago

You're right: the idea that an author holds a secret which we try to guess is simplistic. I used to write sample pieces for students as part of creative writing to demonstrate this (because they had the "author" in the classroom, so we could overcome that part of the issue)

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readingproject 9 months ago

Students invariably interpreted my writing in ways I didn't expect. It was great

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suboptimalism 9 months ago

that piece was inspired by a similar experience - someone read something i wrote and had an interpretation i hadn't thought of at all, but that struck me as equally valid

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letslearntogether 9 months ago

Fascinating article and conversation! I've had similar experiences. Funnily enough, interpretation of spiritual texts (i.e.: the field of "hermeneutics") actually discourages people from reading their own meaning into passages ("eisegesis") versus trying to understand what the author was attempting to convey specifically ("exegesis").

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letslearntogether 9 months ago

Where it gets really interesting is when considering how personal approach and social application relate. Is it a story with layer upon layer of metaphor or is it intended to be a legal framework that people live by? What if it is both simultaneously? These questions are not always easily answered.

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saddleblasters 9 months ago

The interplay between author's intention and the reader's personal experience is such a fascinating topic, and it always seems like there's something new to be said about it. Two ideas that come to mind from a literary theory course I took are (1) Foucault's author function, where he replaces the author with something more abstract,

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saddleblasters 9 months ago

and (2) wolfgang iser's theory that the world in the readers mind comes into existence precisely when there are gaps in the author's text. I.e. the power of fiction is completely derived from its subjectivity and openness to interpretation.

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saddleblasters 9 months ago

References for anyone interested: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Foucault_Author.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/468316

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saddleblasters 9 months ago

I find the foucault essay kind of hard to follow, but it was very influential. Iser's perspective was very memorable to me and has been a big influence on how I think about both reading and writing

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suboptimalism 9 months ago

if i recall correctly i was inspired by something i read in the "polemical introduction" of frye's "anatomy of criticism" while on 3 cups of coffee. can't promise anyone else will be able to find what i did in it, though. still have to go back and finish the rest sometime too.

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readingproject 9 months ago

Think I've found it - from Frye: "The absurd quantum formula of criticism, the assertion that the critic should confine himself to 'getting out' of a poem exactly what the poet may vaguely be assumed to have been aware of 'putting in', is one of the many slovenly illiteracies that the absence of systematic criticism has allowed to grow up . . .

readingproject 9 months ago

". . . That is, the critic is assumed to have no conceptual framework: it is simply his job to make a poem into which a poet has diligently stuffed a specific number of beauties or effects, and complacently extract them one by one, like his prototype Little Jack Horner."

bookbug updated bookbug bookclub ✧˖°

9 months ago

bookbug bookclub ✧˖°

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bookbug 9 months ago

Added three new members- Vashti!

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cyberneticdryad bookbug

9 months ago

I'm still making decorative decisions, but I made a bookbug page to join in next month! https://cyberneticdryad.neocities.org/home/library/bookbug

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inkcaps 9 months ago

Yay yay I'm happy you're joining! :D

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bookbug 9 months ago

Added you to the page! ~Vashti :-)

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Rabbitearsblog's Surreal Cave

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yourdevilfriends bookbug

9 months ago

Hello once again! I decided to jump the shark and started working on my bookbug page: https://devils.gay/etc/bookbug Really appreciate what you guys are doing here, can't wait to get my hands on Convenience Store Woman :)

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bookbug 9 months ago

So happy you're joining :) I added you to our page & I hope you enjoy Convenience Store Woman. It's going to be a reread for me & I love that book. -Vashti

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miela583 bookbug

9 months ago

Hello! This is super nifty, and I made a page to join the club- I don't know if I'll succeed this month, but I'm all in for the next! https://miela583.neocities.org/bitsnbobs/bookbug

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bookbug 9 months ago

Sweet! Do you have a button so we can link you, or do you want us to use a text link?

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miela583 9 months ago

Yes, it is on my about page! I need to up my intuitive design game!

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bookbug 9 months ago

Added your button! Happy to have you join -Vashti :o)

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rabbitearsblog swiftred

9 months ago

Thanks for the follow!

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