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  1. I’m falling out of my chair here! What a great story. Thanks for linking back to the ‘Post, too. You didn’t need to do that and I really appreciate it.
    I reordered my posts to put a very important one at the top. Check it out. You won’t believe it.

  2. I wonder if this means we’ll see trollery of the Dowd-following type here now.
    I guess in order for them to link to IMAO, Frank & the crew need to run a scathing ad about General Petraeus for someone else at a bargain-basement price.

  3. Decent article, saying basically what I thought when I first heard Rowling’s statement. Once the story is published, the character has been defined and exists on its own and the author loses her ability to make changes. Sorta reminds me of that Pirandello play “Six Characters in Search of an Author.” Or my high school English teacher: “It doesn’t always matter what the author intended, because the reader often sees what he wants to see.”

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