make someone laugh

[midlifeaspie]

lol, it sums up how bullshit over-interpreting literature can be.

As the guy in the room with a degree in literature I have to say that you are arguing one half of an argument as old as literature itself.  One half believes that what the author intended to convey is the most important aspect, while the other half believes that literature is a living object and what the current society and individual takes from it is what is important, and what the author meant is pointless and often impossible to determine.

I firmly belong to the latter camp and spent several semesters writing arguments to that end.

[midlifeaspie]

What's funny is that all his pictures are cropped to hide the fact that these places aren't actually as simply named as he wishes they were in his song. 

[Binty]

lol, it sums up how bullshit over-interpreting literature can be.

As the guy in the room with a degree in literature I have to say that you are arguing one half of an argument as old as literature itself.  One half believes that what the author intended to convey is the most important aspect, while the other half believes that literature is a living object and what the current society and individual takes from it is what is important, and what the author meant is pointless and often impossible to determine.

I firmly belong to the latter camp and spent several semesters writing arguments to that end.

I think literature, as well as art, is organic - it lives anew with each person who discovers it.  However, in terms of schooling and such, it's being forced into little boxes by asshole secondary school teachers who blindly follow the syllabus and don't know any better.  It's fine if the student interprets literature as he/she wishes but I despise having a pre-formulated response to something, stuffed down my throat.

/rant

[midlifeaspie]

lol, it sums up how bullshit over-interpreting literature can be.

As the guy in the room with a degree in literature I have to say that you are arguing one half of an argument as old as literature itself.  One half believes that what the author intended to convey is the most important aspect, while the other half believes that literature is a living object and what the current society and individual takes from it is what is important, and what the author meant is pointless and often impossible to determine.

I firmly belong to the latter camp and spent several semesters writing arguments to that end.

I think literature, as well as art, is organic - it lives anew with each person who discovers it.  However, in terms of schooling and such, it's being forced into little boxes by asshole secondary school teachers who blindly follow the syllabus and don't know any better.  It's fine if the student interprets literature as he/she wishes but I despise having a pre-formulated response to something, stuffed down my throat.

/rant

Agreed.  Most high school teachers fuck it up.

[ProfessorFarnsworth]

lol, it sums up how bullshit over-interpreting literature can be.

As the guy in the room with a degree in literature I have to say that you are arguing one half of an argument as old as literature itself.  One half believes that what the author intended to convey is the most important aspect, while the other half believes that literature is a living object and what the current society and individual takes from it is what is important, and what the author meant is pointless and often impossible to determine.

I firmly belong to the latter camp and spent several semesters writing arguments to that end.

I think literature, as well as art, is organic - it lives anew with each person who discovers it.  However, in terms of schooling and such, it's being forced into little boxes by asshole secondary school teachers who blindly follow the syllabus and don't know any better.  It's fine if the student interprets literature as he/she wishes but I despise having a pre-formulated response to something, stuffed down my throat.

/rant

I guess that's what my real objection is. Not so much on how it's over interpreted, but rather this feeling of 'regulation' on what constitute a proper interpretation. I mean if you want a proper interpretation, ask the author (because they wrote it), otherwise it's open to imagination by the reader exclusively and relative to interpretation. I see what you guys are getting at, a piece of literature can stand on it's own as it's own entity.

[Binty]

[Binty]

[eris]

I was standing next to the compter desk where my cat was sitting. I bent over to pick something up, and she smacked me in the ass !

[Al Swearegen]

I was standing next to the compter desk where my cat was sitting. I bent over to pick something up, and she smacked me in the ass !

I hope that was a typo and you meant "on the ass" 

[PuppetSockPenguin]

[Calavera]

I was standing next to the compter desk where my cat was sitting. I bent over to pick something up, and she smacked me in the ass !

And you let the cat get away with it, too. Damn, that cat must be good.

[Binty]

Made me smile:

[midlifeaspie]

Made me smile:

As a highly involved father, I am constantly pissed off at how everything about kids is marketed to "Moms".

[Binty]

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/20-ways-to-scare-your-crush-away/

[midlifeaspie]

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/20-ways-to-scare-your-crush-away/

Wait.

11) Quickly attempt to form a psychologist/ patient dynamic with your crush by almost demanding she reveal intimate details about her past. Proceed to interpret each of these details and dole out unsolicited advice and general life lessons. Transition from this conversation to a drawn-out diatribe about your own experience with personal growth (parts of which you’ve already spoken of, at medium-length), life obstacles, and love lost in which, at the end, you paint yourself as the sage-like victor who has most — if not all — of ‘it’ figured out.

That's how I landed my wife