I saw this posted on Tumblr, and thought it would be appreciated here.
please don’t let companies get aware of this, they’ll demand royalties for letting a friend borrow your books
All books are henceforth created as NFTs, and can only be read by logging in with your government issued ID. Camera and facial recognition will be enabled at any times the book is open to verify the reader. Reading habits will be analyzed for improving our AI, and all records will be kept for 379 years.
Accept these TOS, or never read another book again.
All children under the age of 16 have been automatically enrolled, and expands the lifetime of the subject.
This is something that’s come up recently with the quote about Fallout and capitalism. And it reinforces the idea of “death of the author”, the idea that any work should be evaluated on the text alone, and any interpretation is valid so long as it can be backed up with the text. Furthermore, once a work is completed, the author’s interpretation isn’t given special consideration or weight.
To believe otherwise implies that a work by a person who’s died is necessarily incomplete and cannot be properly interpreted or understood.
So when JK Rowling tweets that Dumbledore is gay, well that’s just fan fiction.
I generally agree with this. Though I don’t think that author’s interpretation shouldn’t be given special consideration, but like any art, everyone have their own perspective and that should be respected.
As for JKR, my very subjective view is, twitter isn’t a canon source for books. If she wants to add to the universe, she can write another book and do it. Until then, HP world finished with book 7.
I was thinking about this not to long ago. More in terms of how a writer writes a story but how each person who reads it will read it differently. I know its sorta the same but its a bit like how an artist sometimes does not want to discuss the meaning of their work as they want each viewer to bring out their own meaning.
