Author, Reader, or Text? (aka Canonicity Slapdown 2005)

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by davem

Sneaks in wearing big hat & false beard & using assumed name so as not to look like a hypocrite....

Where's option five - The meaning is to be found in the glimpse it provides of 'joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief'?

It isn't there, davem because that is an effect the reader experiences based upon his or her own subjective reading experience. So it's there under # 2.

Actually, I wouldn't mind a write-in option.