(urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

[James Wynn]

On 11/16/2011 9:51 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> ('Objective' doesn't mean uber-cool. It means anyone can apply the 
> same method and get the same result.)
> ('Textual' doesn't mean superior. It means we'll be taken wherever 
> applying the method to the text takes us, not the other way round.) 

"Objectively" apply your ideas of "textual" criticism to Wolfe's story 
"Seven American Nights". Use it to show how you can start without a 
"theory" to fill in the blanks left by the text and  to reject false 
cues in the text.

The problem with "objectivity" is that everyone with an opinion thinks 
they have it. But In order to be truly objective, you have to have no 
opinion yourself.