This Ender's Game discussion has me convinced Death of the Author, at least as commonly understood, must either be compromised or taken to an absolute extreme
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People lie all the time about what they meant when they wrote something, or they just forget or distort their memories over time Human psychology is very complex and all kinds of subconscious stuff comes out in writing which is half of what makes it interesting
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And even if none of that were true, you really can say things completely by accident, and that doesn't mean they have no meaning Like the monkeys typing Shakespeare If a Twitter bot spits out a sentence due to a mindless algorithm it doesn't mean the words are meaningless
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Also true! I tend to think of those cases as being more marginal than typical, but the fact that authors, even when accessible, can be unreliable is also a valid observation.
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