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villainesses:

I’m going to talk to you about Reading. I know, I know—you’re (probably) not in school right now, or haven’t been in years, and either way literature is not for your off hours. But I already have your brain translating letters into words and sentences and paragraphs in your head, so I say we just keep going with it. Namely, I want to talk to you about fiction, which, given that tumblr is all fandom all the time, I think is a fair subject. And within that, I want to about images, and the color of those blue curtains and red apples in our books, things that some folks say mean nothing. Our teachers may insist that those blue curtains mean solitude, or red apples mean sexuality, lust, temptation, but I mean, I’ve had a lot of red apples, and I don’t think they’re very sexy.

Maybe you’ve even seen the posts going around tumblr that inspired this one.  The ones complaining about how a book contains a minor detail—an apple being bitten, blue curtains wafting in the breeze—and a teacher proceeds to launch into a convoluted, overzealous explanation of the SIGNIFICANCE and the SYMBOLISM, practically frothing at the mouth as the student looks on in horror and amusement.  Mostly horror; amusement would imply it being enjoyable, and I don’t imagine you find it very enjoyable if you think people are assigning undue weight to a fruit basket.

Those wacky teachers, trying to convince us that the people who write enduring literature spent hours choosing EVERY WORD and EVERY IMAGE. No one does that, no matter how genius they are! I actually won’t spend time contesting this point, because it’s an unverifiable hypothesis—my question to you is rather: so what?

This got long, so it’s going to be in several parts. Sorry.

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(Fonte: acaele)

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