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06-27-2021, 09:46 PM | #1 |
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I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
it's Plato's Republic.
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07-05-2021, 01:50 AM | #2 |
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Re: I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
Does Bioware know?
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07-05-2021, 09:38 AM | #3 |
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Re: I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
As per the (possibly apocryphal) example ... what would the author know about what their work means? ;-)
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07-06-2021, 12:17 AM | #4 | |
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Re: I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
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There are only two the Author really is authoritative upon - what it means to them now, and what it was intended to mean. Most of the honest ones admit that the original intent and the current meaning to themselves are often different. Hell, what a movie or show meant to an actor on it during the run and after the run are often different... and may even change over time... (see Nimoy, I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock for an example of this) |
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07-07-2021, 05:46 AM | #5 |
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Re: I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
That's actually useful to have that explained - I had been under the impression that it was just a display of intellectual arrogance on the part of the critic to claim he knew better than the author.
There's probably some debate to be had about the relative values of the various meanings - and I think we're all aware that it's entirely possible to strap a meaning to something that has nothing to do with it - but I suspect we all have better things to do. Still, would be interesting to know if Bioware know that the Way of the Qun is Plato's Republic. |
07-07-2021, 09:32 AM | #6 | |
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Re: I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
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07-08-2021, 04:50 AM | #7 |
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Re: I figured out what the Way of the Qun is from Dragon Age
IIRC, that was something a literary critic or literature professor actually said to Isaac Asimov once (mentioned in one of his non-fiction works, so probably true if my memory of it is accurate). Dr. Asimov did not agree.
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