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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
Well, they did write the bloody thing. Who's more qualified to interpret a work: the author, or some ivory-tower prat trying to pigonhole that work 200+ years later?
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Except that they're no longer around to interpret their work directly, so in order to use their interpretations we have to rely on interpretations of their interpretations. Which just means that their writings get interpreted according to the ideological bent of the person doing the interpretation. Pigeonholing is pigeonholing, regardless of whether its being done by some ivory-tower prat or some overweight dude in camo with a hunting rifle in one hand and a can of bud light in the other (as long as we're using stereotypes).