243: Either 8½ or 68 Million
Dear Hank & John
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Authorial Intent Is Not Totally Irrelevant
Hank m i staked out the most radical opposite position I possibly could. And then, as often happens to me, hank m i went from leri, i tweat 400 times a day, to twitter is bad for the social order and i will never use it again. So i adopted the belief, and very loudly, i might add, that books belong to their readers,. It does not matter whether herman melville intended moby dick, although he obviously did. That's what moby Dick is. What makes a book good is its readers.
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