GlaDOS - Free?

[Seil]

(It's occurred to me that the argument is over now. Disregard this.)

If you look closely the phone cord is cut. GlaDOS is too smart. I'm not buying the theory but I think it is impressive how powerful the story of Portal is to seem people. The most important rule of interpretation is that it can never mean anything more than what the author intended.

I like to write and hope (against all odds) that one day I'll have a book published and it'll be recognized as a cool book that people talk about and junk - but then I think that everyone will be like "Yeah, this character dies because it's a symbol for blah." And I'll just be like "What? That's not what I meant at all!"

But I do think that a public work, like Portal for instance, is free to be interpreted by whomever wants to and the author can't say anything.

...What? Why... it's his... that... what?!?

(And I'm trying to find a particular post from Invisible Queen, where she mentions an author visiting one of her classes and the professor taking the liberty of telling everyone what the book was about, and he disagreed, which caused the prof. to start arguing with him.)