The Art of Restraint

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I asked my daughter if you could give Blinch a pill and say like and he has to answer truthfully how do you interpret the end of Twin Peaks would you want to do it? She's like yeah yeah yes fuck yes like I want to know. Do you? Yeah probably less I think than she does but sure. "There is this limbo where multiple interpretations exist and that brings me pleasure"

What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark thinks about the end of 2001? Or is the artist’s interpretation just one interpretation among many once the text is out in the world? We explore the question of authorial intent, and brace yourselves - this is just about as postmodern as David gets.

Plus – do we have what it takes to get an invite to the thought criminals club?

Links

The Party is Canceled [newyorker.com]

Was I Wrong About The Irishman? by Thomas Flight [youtube.com]

Authorial Intent [wikipedia.org]