criticism is more the current rage; it only wants to answer, ‘How does this text affect me?’ There is no precise or correct meaning but only meanings which arise from within the reader.6 I admit my preoccupation with a writer’s intention is dated. And I really don’t care. It’s hard to get away from the suspicion that someone meant to mean something with a text. Sooner or later folks will recognize that—again. Where? (Context). I have a note from our middle son when he was in middle school. It’s on
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