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Words Of Wisdom said:
Khuutra said:

The "blah blah blah" was poking fun at my own tendency to over-explain this tired academic rhetoric, I apologize if I offnded you. It was not intentional.

And no, I don't think "information" is what's being conveyed here. Meaning isn't intrinsic to information.

Meaning is intrinsic to the reader, but when enough readers provide the same meaning it becomes generally accepted.

There are a lot of schools of critical thought, and many of them suggest that meaning isn't intrinsic to anything except for the dialogue surrounding a work. It's intrinsic to the reader in the sense that the reader is the progrenitor of the dialogue, but as the reader's own perception of meaning changes and he dialogue changes even more the idea has always been trouble some to me.

Look, Kain kicks ass is what I am trying to say.