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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 06:04 am (UTC)Isn't it, though? Isn't the text a product of the author's mind, and as such almsot impossible to analyse without understanding the author's intent and circumstances? To analyse the purpose of the text, isn't it analysing the purpose of the author?
I would not always understand Kafka, Strindberg, Almqvist, Mann, or Lagerlöf's (sorry for the German/Swedish slant, it's what I've been studying lately) works fully without knowing their intent, and I'd say it's an important part of some of their texts.
In more modern works it's even more relevant, since we're more immediately influenced by them, and often living in the society they describe. Analysing it doesn't mean agreeing with it, surely?