Are we reading things into novels the authors themselves never intended?

[ninwa]

My mom has enough degrees in literature to fill a room-(3 masters lit and a doc in linguistics)

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holy shit your mum is smart

and yes, that teacher made me love English, I've never had any teacher/lecturer since as good as he was

[m@tty]

One time whilst in discussion about a prompt in class I suggested another facet which could be explored, which I assure you had ample supporting evidence. The teacher said "no, you can't argue that. I've already covered all of the paragraphs you can do." (or something to that effect).

Most fail thing he ever said xD

[Ghost!]

One time whilst in discussion about a prompt in class I suggested another facet which could be explored, which I assure you had ample supporting evidence. The teacher said "no, you can't argue that. I've already covered all of the paragraphs you can do." (or something to that effect).

Most fail thing he ever said xD

Hahaha yep I've had one like that. Made a suggestion after out class explored a topic, my teacher couldn't understand why on earth I would bother making a suggestion and don't just write the same essay as the other 23 kids...

[EvangelionZeta]

Thankfully, all of my teachers in the last few years have been fairly open-minded in terms of interpretation...  I don't think I've ever had the situation where I argued something, and the teacher said it wasn't allowed!

[QuantumJG]

So he decided to write a book about a world that followed the laws of abstract mathematics, purely to point out the batshit lunacy of it. Things keep changing size and proportion before Alice's eyes, not because she's tripping on bad acid, but because the world is based on stupid postmodern algebra with shit like imaginary numbers that don't even make any sense god dammit.

I lol'd at this. When you look at this Maths for the first time it does look crazy!

Research Cantor and Cardinality. The whole concept of variations of infinity!