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Annie’s view of the author (hurt him!) and Harry’s version (help him!) are two sides of the same oscillating coin. Either the work exists wholly apart from the author, in which case his flawed self becomes increasingly loathsome: first he distracts from the work, and then he tarnishes it and thus makes it harder for you to enjoy it, and then he becomes an existential threat to its imagined perfection and so must be destroyed at all costs. Or, alternatively, the work and the author are, fundamentally, the same being: in which case, our love for the work fuels our crazed, all-consuming love for the author. Both are perfect and must continue to be perfect, because love this overwhelming can neither see nor tolerate any flaws.