To Smithereens and Back“Enter at your own risk, beyond the bolted doors where impossible things can happen that the world has never seen before.”This pulsating compelling theme song resonated inside me as I waited for my one guilty pleasure, my one time-honored creative catalyst in an otherwise exhaustingly rigorous routine. Dexter's Laboratory was intrinsically interesting to my generation; the seemingly original idea of ​​nuclear family with a twist and a very cat and mouse relationship between the main character, Dexter, and his sister Dee-Dee has fascinated our such naive minds. It has always perplexed me how Dexter tries to invent in solitude, his efforts at scientific progress stopped by the immature and creative genius that is Dee-Dee; It was in this deceptively parasitic relationship that I found food for thought: the genius boy immersed himself in the world of science to invent with a certain defined purpose, but the comically outspoken sister found a different use, a completely different definition for her inventions. to the dismay of our short-accented protagonist. While “blown to smithereens” turned out to be the end of this little analogy, the dynamic of their relationship transcends simple cartoon characters and develops into a more abstract entity. Goulish interpreted this entity as the relationship between the writer and the reader, and in his essay “Criticism,” the idea of ​​why a writer writes and why a reader reads is addressed in a truly unique light. Goulish believes that “Every act of critical thinking finds its value by fulfilling one or both of two related purposes: 1) causing change 2) understanding how to understand.” (558) Striving to enter the mind of a critic, Goulish is able to represent what, in essence, any... medium of paper... very interesting that the word you use to describe this concrete, desolate chemical had in fact a completely contradictory meaning: “Plastic (n.): modeled structure or figure; a creative or procreative principle; a solid substance easily molded or shaped,” (Oxford English Dictionary).” (Letter to Roland)This anomaly, this manifestation of a paradox that hides in the subtext of the writer's subconscious could not be explained by anything more complex than a simple overanalysis of the definition of a word, but it is a reflection of the writer's process , is what remains after the mental battle that every writer faces when faced with a certain topic; no writer can be completely convinced of the validity of his argument, because otherwise he would not write about it. The mere fact that we write about a topic demonstrates our desire for a deeper understanding.