“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
• Barthes declares 'the death of the author': a text's meaning is born not in the writer's intention but in the reader's reading. Who truly creates a work, the one who writes it or the one who reads it?