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aesthete8
Jan 5, 2012, 1:31:02 AM1/5/12
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Although commentaries on Genji Monogatari are intended by their
respective authors to shed light on and clarify the novel, could their
growing number be in fact obfuscating and causing us to lose sight of
Shikibu's original intent?:
- Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a
landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested
spiders have spun their webs.
Henry Ward Beecher
http://books.google.com/books?id=VIzfsTdB0QgC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22flood+of+exegesis%22&source=bl&ots=S7TIvsJpCI&sig=kFcBa03cHdnEfig9C1cWT-cuCuI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lz4FT82HHvPoiALpp-CvDg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22flood%20of%20exegesis%22&f=false
respective authors to shed light on and clarify the novel, could their
growing number be in fact obfuscating and causing us to lose sight of
Shikibu's original intent?:
- Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a
landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested
spiders have spun their webs.
Henry Ward Beecher
http://books.google.com/books?id=VIzfsTdB0QgC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%22flood+of+exegesis%22&source=bl&ots=S7TIvsJpCI&sig=kFcBa03cHdnEfig9C1cWT-cuCuI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lz4FT82HHvPoiALpp-CvDg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22flood%20of%20exegesis%22&f=false
aesthete8
Jan 5, 2012, 3:30:55 AM1/5/12
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On Jan 4, 8:31 pm, aesthete8 <art...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Although commentaries on Genji Monogatari are intended by their
> respective authors to shed light on and clarify the novel, could their
> growing number be in fact obfuscating and causing us to lose sight of
> Shikibu's original intent?:
>
> - Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a
> landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested
> spiders have spun their webs.
>
> Henry Ward Beecher
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=VIzfsTdB0QgC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=%...
> Although commentaries on Genji Monogatari are intended by their
> respective authors to shed light on and clarify the novel, could their
> growing number be in fact obfuscating and causing us to lose sight of
> Shikibu's original intent?:
>
> - Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a
> landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested
> spiders have spun their webs.
>
> Henry Ward Beecher
>
- There is no more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret
things; and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do
nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with
commentaries...
Montaigne
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