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THERE'S A SELF-AWARENESS THAT COMES WITH BEING NEW TO SOMETHING ("SHOULD I DO IT LIKE THIS? OR WHAT ABOUT LIKE THIS? AM I DOING _THIS_ RIGHT?")
B.D. AS A RECORD (CARBON FOOTPRINT) OF CHAUCER'S CREATION OF A TEXT — SIMULTANEOUSLY A TEXT AND A DOCUMENTATION OF THE TEXT'S CREATION PROCESS
GOOD ARTISTS COPY
Creativity — can be seen in others, but one's own creativity must be seen by others. Individuals cannot be aware of their own creativity — impossible for one to know what about their art is 'new' for someone else, can only conjecture what others will perceive as being creative. Thus, creativity is in the eye of the beholder.
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B.D., like the tale of Alcione and Ceyx, contains multiple interpretations. The narrator originally learns from Ovid's tale that there is a goddess of sleep who can send individuals dreams, but on a successive reading (his future recounting of the tale) is moved by the queen's immense grief. Likewise, B.D. at first reads like a story about grief, but on subsequent reads, the narrator's journey from reader to author can become the story's central focus. So, while the tale initially teaches the narrator something he doesn't know about sleeping/dreaming, before he is then able to understand the intensity of the queen's grief, the B.D. flips the order of its interpretations -- what at first likely reads as a story about grief (which is ideal, considering the story was likely meant for John of Gaunt), on subsequent reads can be seen as revealing something about authorship to readers, that reading texts can inspire and motivate one to produce texts of their own, using old texts as a source of ideas, meant to be reused in different ways.
Rereading enables a reader to find new meanings in a text by letting them see each part of the text in the context of the text as a whole, which is impossible to achieve.
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