Construct a theoretical model. Watch it spin. Take it down. Build another. Spin it around and see how it flies.
Exactly. Our theoretical models for how literature works are just patterns that help us see what bits do what; sometimes they are mutually exclusionary, and that's okay. You *can* hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time.
They're not religious tenets, or they shouldn't be.
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Date: 2006-06-13 05:32 pm (UTC)Exactly. Our theoretical models for how literature works are just patterns that help us see what bits do what; sometimes they are mutually exclusionary, and that's okay. You *can* hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time.
They're not religious tenets, or they shouldn't be.