lighten up?

[rainy_lilac]

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From: rainy_lilac
Subject: Re: lighten up?
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5785] Re: lighten up
Date: 8/5/00 10:40 am  (ET)

>>>>>>Quijote was insane.

Cervantes was not, however. Forgive me, but wasn't the person who
mentioned Quijote discussing the significance of small details in the
author's life and in the plot of the book? Big difference. Quijote was
a fictional character-- invented by Cervantes.

I agree that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (rhino or whatever) I also
happen to note that in Rowling's work small details often have a great
deal of significance later on-- often enough to make it worth discussing.

Bear in mind also that much of the discussion in this group is centered
upon guessing what will happen next-- to which Rowling has given plenty
of clues, often in minutia-- and this kind of a discussion is inevitably
going to be centered on the plot, characters and the details, rather
than, say, social or structuralist criticism of the book, the impact of
contemporary events on the novel, Feminist critique, or the deconstruction
of prescientific ways of thinking about magic, though many of us might
indulge in that. A lot of us are just here to have fun.

Please note I have not read this entire thread or even your original
post about the rhino, so I apologize if I am misconstruing anything by
stepping into the middle of the discussion like this.