Comments on: Anime isn’t Deep. You Are http://anime.lordmatt.com/2007/08/24/anime-isnt-deep-you-are/ Noble commentary about everything important. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:11:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Lord Matt, Super Geek http://anime.lordmatt.com/2007/08/24/anime-isnt-deep-you-are/#comment-3175 Lord Matt, Super Geek Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:39:53 +0000 http://anime.lordmatt.com/2007/08/24/anime-isnt-deep-you-are/#comment-3175 Back in the day when I was a student my English Lit teacher said: "You can not be wrong you must only be consistent". The point is not that British (and American) literature is written by geniuses but that it is written in a way that allows us to analyse it without it "falling apart". The book can not and will not change because we look at it (no mater what Mr Pratchett's Disk World Wizards might think). What changes is the reader. This is, I think, what you were saying. That what is shown by our analysis is not the depth of the author but the depths of the reader. Art, so long as it has internal consistency (and anime is art), is like an imperfect mirror - what we see is a reflection of part of ourselves. Back in the day when I was a student my English Lit teacher said: “You can not be wrong you must only be consistent”. The point is not that British (and American) literature is written by geniuses but that it is written in a way that allows us to analyse it without it “falling apart”. The book can not and will not change because we look at it (no mater what Mr Pratchett’s Disk World Wizards might think). What changes is the reader.

This is, I think, what you were saying. That what is shown by our analysis is not the depth of the author but the depths of the reader. Art, so long as it has internal consistency (and anime is art), is like an imperfect mirror - what we see is a reflection of part of ourselves.

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