I love this post Leslie. You have clearly thought long and hard about it and I like that you wrote it about this guy 'Alan Singer', whom you clearly respect and obviously, in a wider context, represents the role of Jesus in your life. Well done.
Awesomely enough, everyone else's comments to you basically are exactly what I was going to say: THIS IS SUCH A GOOD POST. It was knocking on the "BRILLIANT" door, and it was so good, it got let in. SO GOOD, this was so good.
After I kinda vented about being able to interpret anything you want into literature, his response was the I-teach-grad-school-creative-writing-classes equivalent of "yeah but I asked the author."
WTF. Cop OUT. Yeah, sure, Alan Singer; when you talked about Shakespeare did you ask him his interepretation of his work as well? Do you have an intimate relationship with Franz Kafka? Did you call Joseph Conrad up on the phone and have a chat? You probably did spam the e-mail inbox of Jesus whilst reading the New Testament, and most of that spam is naked pictures of you jacking off on the Bible.
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My ever-appropriate response: I thought long and hard about your mom.
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After I kinda vented about being able to interpret anything you want into literature, his response was the I-teach-grad-school-creative-writing-classes equivalent of "yeah but I asked the author."
WTF. Cop OUT. Yeah, sure, Alan Singer; when you talked about Shakespeare did you ask him his interepretation of his work as well? Do you have an intimate relationship with Franz Kafka? Did you call Joseph Conrad up on the phone and have a chat? You probably did spam the e-mail inbox of Jesus whilst reading the New Testament, and most of that spam is naked pictures of you jacking off on the Bible.
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