thread: 2005-04-07 : Theme: Observed?
On 2005-04-08, TonyLB wrote:
Oooh... previewy.
Will the eventual item also deal with the behavior of simply deciding that part of a text is relevant to theme, for no other reason than to see where it takes you mentally?
Ferinstance, my college literature professor decided to analyze Paradise Lost working on the assumption that the most important parts were those that featured the word "rebound" or its variants. It was a pretty cool analysis, and gave lots of insight into the book. Prof. Stern claimed that you could do that with virtually any word and get the same results.
I don't know that I buy that for literature, but I think I've seen it happen in RPGs. Will that be discussed? Pleeeease?
