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eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:35:39 JST eribosot

Some people don't believe in the idea that literature partly gets its meaning from the reader reading it, and not just from the intent of the author writing it.
I'd like to submit for evidence in favor of the theory, this fragment from the 14th century Chinese classic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
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1. Text reads, "The following day the rebel Huang Shao himself led forth his army and made his battle array along a circle. A leader advanced on foot to offer combat. He wore a yellow turban on his head and a green robe. His weapon was an iron mace. He shouted, 'I am He Man, the devil who shoots across the sky; who dare fight with me?'"
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