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Author: Scorus

Oct 10th 2008 at 7:42:58 PM

Well, I daresay that without having read either of the WordOfGod or the hypothesized DeathOfTheAuthor entires, they would both be about the same level of misleading just going on titles. If we really must change the title, why not shout out the originator of the idea and call it WordOfBarthes? Personally I'm not sure ''why'' "[[AuthorExistenceFailure the author died]]" is a trope (though I'm sure there's a reason). [[{{Woobie}} it's]] not [[{{Anvilicious}} like]] there [[MeghanBox aren't]] any [[CowTools tropes]] around here with less-than-informative names.

My point is, complaining that DeathOfTheAuthor is misleading is only an internal point of view and ignores that WordOfGod is equally misleading, if not more so, without knowing that the trend around here is to use religious metaphors for the author. Also, it's somewhat... odd... to call this "better than canon" because it's ''exactly'' canon, and regards anything not written in the work as trespassing including the author. So even BetterThanCanon is a pathetic, small measure bit misleading.