[B5JMS] Where is JMS? In the past he defended Sins Past

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From: Steve-o Stonebraker <sstoneb at fox.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 2004 23:56:44 GMT
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:19:23 +0100, Sean Thomas wrote:
> The evidence is NOT factual?

Explain to me a definition of "factual" which includes things that people 
make up in their heads in order to flesh out fictional characters.  Then, 
explain how your definition accounts for different people making up 
different things on the basis of their own experiences, preferences, and 
desires.  In other words, back up your implicit claim that works of art 
have one and only one correct interpretation.

                                                     --Steve-o
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 12 Oct 2004 05:05:43 GMT

>In other words, back up your implicit claim that works of art 
>have one and only one correct interpretation.

Exactly.  The whole thing about being a work of art is that it can be
interpreted in new and different ways.  Art is what happens in the space
between the viewer and what's being viewed, where we bring our own view of the
world into play.  (I'd go into a lengthy thing about art and quantum mechanics
but I haven't yet done all the math on that one yet).

Everyone knows that Hamlet was a guy, but there have been many productions
where that part is played by a female, or when Henry V is moved into modern
dress.  That it's art doesn't prevent this, the fact that it's art *allows*
this.

 jms

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