I didn’t read the link, but with e-cigarettes, less nicotine is transfered compared to inhaled smoke from cigarette. The benefit, though, is that you avoid all the harmful things like CO, tar, and a lot of chemicals.

Yeah, I have one of those too. I use this instead:

Same here. These cocottes and almost everything else on the list I would use!

Yeah, it sounds sorta like a dry throat. It’s easy not to notice, but once someone points it out, it’s hard to ignore, as the article notes.

That’s what her lawyer put out. Those aren’t facts. The person leading the investigation is the one who I paraphrased in my comment:

Yeah. Reminds me of Ultraviolence, how, at first, I wasn’t too impressed with the songs. But then they later really, really grew on me. I can see that happening with this song. It takes an interesting turn, for example, a full 4 minutes into it.

I love Rihanna. But, yeah, her songs aren’t that good.

I love LA. I love Lana’s LA.

They weren’t medically trained and did no mental competency tests on her.

But all we have is ink on paper, dude. That’s the only place we can get meaning. We can’t go into the author’s mind to get the intent, especially if they are dead.

Her hometown has been putting on a play of TKAM for over a decade now. But just two months ago, a new non-profit was created “by Ms Lee” that removed the rights to put on the play. Is she aware of all these changes to her town?

Ok. You can disagree with it, but you were trying to brush it aside as nothing more than faddish deconstruction. It’s based on a standard view of the reading process.

We do know that a completed manuscript entitled “Watchman” was handed over to her editor and rejected by a publisher.

Yep. Except that it was the publishers that rejected the manuscript. And so her editors suggested that she try a different take.

But it’s being hyped as much, much more. It shot to the top of the best sellers list as soon as it was announced, for one. I mean, just look at all the love the Guardian put into their publishing of the first chapter. You can even listen to Reese Witherspoon reading it aloud with you.

You’re forgetting the timeline here. There is no reason to assume that Finch has been “peeled back of those outer layers of decency [...] and revealed.” In other words, no reason to assume they were thought of as the same character, due to all the murkiness surrounding the manuscript.

That paragraph is the standard understanding of the process of reading that you will encounter in any pedagogy class. There’s nothing there until the reader interacts with the text to create meaning. And that meaning includes contributions from the reader’s lived experience.

Why do we need to identify an owner? They’re not real people, after all. If you say Harper Lee is the owner, why would I care? We can think of the fictional characters as we wish.

There is none. This is a very unique and complicated case that’s never happened before in our lifetime.

Except deconstruction is no longer “en vogue.” And the argument Albert is presenting doesn’t rely upon deconstruction. The German Romantics were saying the same thing back in the early 19th century.