{"id":2630,"date":"2008-10-31T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/10\/31\/author-interpretation\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:34:01","slug":"author-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/10\/author-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"

John C. Wright on interpretation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Interviewers frequently ask me how my conversion to Catholicism has influenced my writing. I tell them that writing the books is still pretty much the same, but that, now the I am Catholic, I am not allowed to interpret my own books, nor read them in English, but must have my books interpreted by the magisterium, based on the findings of a general council.<\/p>\n

(On the other hand, if I had been a Protestant, I would have been able to interpret my own books howsoever the Spirit led me: but anything I said aloud and did not write down, things I said in interviews and stuff, I could not use.)<\/p>\n

I agreed right away, of course, thinking that by the ‘magisterium’ they meant the sinister baddies from Pullman’s GOLDEN COMPASS, who send out Jesuit ninja to kill people and stuff. I could not wait to perform my first intercission on some bratty girl or gypsy streetrat! But no, it was just some dumb teaching authority. <\/p>\n

And all it teaches is the love and forgiveness fluffy-nuffy stuff that is so opposed to my cold and savage Romulan nature. What a letdown.<\/p>\n

And here I thought the pope was going to be Darkseid seeking the Anti-Life Equation, and he turns out to be this nice old scholarly man of the cloth who does not approve of war, torture, sodomy or aborticide.<\/p>\n

No interviewer has ever asked my what it is like being the chief of sinners, however. No one asks me why the Church is so beautiful, like a bride adorned for her wedding, or so frightening as a sharp and shining sword whose scabbard has been tossed away. In other words, they ask me about my religion, but not about my faith, if you see my meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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