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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4502911" data-attributes="member: 41321">Gee, I hated English class when I was in school, but now that I'm an adult I find myself voluntarily discussing books and movies like we were forced to do in English class. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The way I see it, after the author creates a work and lets it loose into the world (publishes it, puts it in a museum, posts it on a website, etc) he's lost control of it.  He can say what he wanted it to mean, but what it means to the audience doesn't necessarily correlate to the author's intention.  Once the work is "loose" the author doesn't have control anymore.  It's like blowing soap bubbles.  You can control how big they get, or how many of them you make, but once you've made them it's the wind that decides where they go and when they pop.I think it's valid to consider the author's intentions or things in their lives that may have affected their works, but at the same time the work has to live on its own.  An author worth his pen shouldn't need to say, "this work means X" in order for you to understand it.  You should be able to get that meaning out of the work itself.  If you don't get that meaning (and nobody else does either) then the author is wrong.  Authors are wrong about their own work all the time.  How many authors/artists have you heard of that hate their own work while the world thinks it's spectacular?And to get back to OoTS itself... I don't think there are any players.  Just because there are rules doesn't mean it's a game.  These are characters that live in a world where the rules of the universe happen to correspond to rules we use in a game - that doesn't mean that it's a game to the characters.  "Rules" do not necessarily equal "game".  There are rules in our own world as well, like physics, and that doesn't mean we live in a game.</blockquote>

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