PRUFROCK YOU! (english humor)

"The Death of the Author"= the author is absent from the text. I do believe in this theory, but the term "DEATH" seems a little drastic. The book did say that it was radical, so I guess that's the point. And the phrase came from Roland Barthes, which means that it must be cool to believe in (if you want to be the cool person in a group of literary freaks, just mention Roland Barthes. Just the name Roland Barthes rolls off the tongue like a melted jelly-bean).
I like how the author randomly started talking about the intentions of a horse. "…out of the horses mouth." is what I'm referring to. But if the horse says something, is it telling the truth? Is the horse lying? Is there such a thing as a lying horse? If the horse does speak, and if we actually hear it speak, does this mean that we will know what the horse is really trying to say? What if a porpoise were to speak to us– do these same inqueries apply?