“Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.”
-Umberto Eco-
“Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.”
-Umberto Eco-
a photographic pilgrimage to Orthodox Christian monasteries across the continent
Meandering Through a Literary Life
Orthodox Christianity, Culture and Religion, Making the Journey of Faith
Erik Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts
"That's the big what happened."
Networking the complexity community since 1999
The Prose & Poetry of Seth Wieck
All my Words are Silent 
“…there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.” Spot on. I cannot help but think of an analogous quotation from George Steiner: “It is not so much the poet who speaks, but language itself: die Sprache spricht. The authentic, immensely rare, poem is one in which ‘the Being of language’ finds unimpeded lodging, in which the poet is not a persona, a subjectivity ‘ruling over language’, but an ‘openness to’, a supreme listener to, the genius of speech. The result of such openness is not so much a text, but an ‘act’, an eventuation of Being and literal ‘coming into Being’.” Thank you again for stirring such thought.
We all need others to see ourselves:) Truth in text:)
So Heideggerian and Eco “Open-work”ish! It has been so encouraging to see your blogs and finding the names of each of my very favorites – Blanchot, Camus, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin?, Jakobsen? – yippee… Nice to know their thought is alive and going on! Thank you