Re: Future of RPG

EXACTLY.

Speach, creative/fictional writing, media skills, etc., are skills
development classes and very important...

Lit is an interpretive pseudo science in which someone presumes to assign
their meaning/interpretation of a literary work and attempts to instill it
as THE meaning in the literary work...even if the author is long dead and
cold and left NO actual documentation as to any meanings, IF ANY, to thier
works...which in most cases are just creative stories and works of
fiction...



On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, James H H Lampert wrote:

> > I said that because I recall wasting ALOT ALOT of time in lit classes
> > while some "learned professor" attempted to provide us with the
> > "enlightened meaning" behind stories and prose...ad nauseum!
> >
> > I'm reminded SPECIFICALLY what Melville said after tiring over the
> > ceaseless bantering by these kinds of dolts, to the effect of:  'There's
> > NO hidden meanings...IT'S JUST A STORY..." when talking about Moby
> > Dick...
>
> . . .
>
> THAT is something I would not disagree with. And I've had plenty of
> spirited (yet very friendly) arguments with a local junior college writing
> instructor over my own assertion that not only are "literary fiction" and
> "genre fiction" NOT mutually exclusive; indeed, there is no such animal as
> "non-genre fiction," since even "contemporary realism" counts as a genre.
> But using a classroom as a captive audience to proselytize one's personal
> theories is hardly unique to Literature. It's the major fault I find with
> Niklaus Wirth, and his theories about structured programming. It's also
> the major fault I find with ANYBODY who decides that ANY programming
> language, or ANY coding methodology, is the one that should supplant
> EVERYTHING ELSE that's been done.
>
> And as to Moby Dick, well, yes it is just a story. It's a story about a
> fellow whose obsession destroys him, and drags just about everybody around
> him down, too. And it's a story about whaling. (It is not, however, a
> "social disease.")
>
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> JHHL
>
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