is any of this true?

[kristinmarie23]

How do you know if any of this info. on this web site is true if there is no author willing to take credit?

[firemeboy]

Well, since the author has to have been dead for 50 years you may have a long wait...

:)

[Ickmeister]

Yeah, Find the fountain of Youth and wait to see if time is cyclical.

[chrissy]

The fact that no one knows for sure what an author intended is the reason for having these forums. D

[Admin]

Opinions, by their definition, can never be false.

[chrissy]

I have to disagree with you there. (this seems a bit ironic) An opinion may be based on something other than a fact, but if it goes directly against a fact then it would be wrong, in other words an uninformed opinion is often wrong.

[AbdoRinbo]

I have to disagree with you there. (this seems a bit ironic) An opinion may be based on something other than a fact, but if it goes directly against a fact then it would be wrong, in other words an uninformed opinion is often wrong.

Listen: The reason why literary critics can get away with murder, it seems, is because their job is to evaluate texts outside of the author's domain (unless the texts are biographical, in which case the author's intentions might have some bearing). Once a composition is completed and published, it takes on a life of its own, and not even the author can maintain complete advocacy. If the author unknowingly has turned a simple allegory into a rich social commentary, who is to say that the art suffers because the commentary was 'unintentional'? Be weary of authors who stick close to their work and attack critics for 'misrepresenting' them.