[HPforGrownups] ADMIN: Comments on 'over-analysis' (was Re: JKR's play on words etc...)

[Sheryll Townsend]

No: HPFGUIDX 13538


--- Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> Crustum the Clown wrote:
> 
> <<And then there's my therory....you all read *way*
> too much into half of
> this stuff.>>
> 
> Scott responded:
> 
> <<--But thats what this list if for isn't it? I mean
> sure we probably  "read
> *way* too much" into the books, but I for one think
> it's fun!  Not to make
> you mad or anything but that is the whole point of 
> literary discussion.
> (Kinda like that rhinoceros reference that
>  supposedly had something to do with Ionesco...)>>
> 
> Jen said:
> 
> <<Oh PLEASE, let's not talk about that one again.  I
> was the one who brought
> up the rhino-allusion originally, and let me just
> tell you, I got very sick
> of the "you're reading WAY too much into this - it's
> just ridiculous"
> posts/emails that just seeing a reference to it
> raises my blood pressure.>>
> 
> 
> Yes, let's leave the scab over that wound, shall we?
> 
> Jen is referring to an old thread that ended up
> causing some bad feeling on
> the list.  So, in case anyone else was planning to
> comment on whether or not
> some of us 'over-analyse' the Harry Potter books,
> I'll say, quite firmly,
> don't even go there!  It may start off in good
> humour, but we could easily
> end up with elevated blood pressure all round.
> 
> Thanks, everyone.
I agree with Neil on this, when things get out of hand
on this list it can be a very ugly thing.

Sheryll, who responded to this only so she could ask
when we get to see photos of Neil in his moderator
hairnet and bunny slippers!

> (Yes, I am wearing the moderator hairnet... and
> bunny slippers.  Wanna make
> something of it?)
> 
> Neil


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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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