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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2010-11-05 05:35 am (UTC)The book is a cultural artifact which has information outside of the text: the peritext, the marketing context, the mode of delivery to audience (hugely important in highly mediated children's literature), and yes, the author's stated intent. That package is a valid object of cultural critique. But the text is the object of literary analysis, and all of that extratextual information is not a part of it.