As I wrote in my previous entry, I am a firm believer in the triangle of discourse that is created between the reader, the writer, and the text. My image of the canon is one that includes all three of these subjects. The pebble thrower is the author, launching his texts (the pebbles) into the water (aka out into the public as published works), and the ripples that are created are the responses from readers out in the water (the great wide world). The responses from the readers can interlock like the ripples seen in this photograph because responses to texts can often be similar within a given culture, and sometimes even across cultural lines.
I think it's very interesting that many of us have chosen images that deal with water. Is it because the canon brings about visualizations that deal with fluidity, movement, and transformation?
...zowie....what an image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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