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Comment by twic

6 years ago

For the alternative point of view:

A playwright is not the best person to talk about his own work for the simple reason that he is often unaware of what he has written.

-- Alan Bennett

The playwright is still within his/her realm to call bullshit when people claim that the playwright “meant X”.

  • the writer's mind is a palette and on it are his experiences, his instincts, his biases. to be fully aware of the meaning "X" is to be fully aware of not only his own meta-cognition, but the context of the world that he lives in that coloured his person, that resulted in him deciding to write something in order to bring forth the message "X".