[the_old_crowd] Re.How the HP Books Let Me Down: A Tragic Tale

[Mike & Susan Gray]

The Voice of the Text said,

> Being as the author is dead, she is not at liberty to explain 
> this or to comment on the possibility that yesterday's post 
> contained any satirization of HP fandom, the author included.

Giggle. 

Any chance you could direct me to wherever it was that whichever Model
Authors had their discussion about Zio Umberto? (I doesn't seem to have been
on this list. I looked.) I was talking about that with my chair a couple
weeks ago (I'm using his Model Reader thing in my work), and we got into a
disagreement about whether Umberto really thinks authors are irrelevant. I
said he does, Chair (who is om,iscient) says he doesn't really. He didn't
explain, though, and darned if I have the guts to bug him about it.

One thing's for sure: HPfGU has proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that a
text is a machine designed to produce interpretations. And interpretations.
And interpretations.

Baaaaaaa,

Mike