EXACTLY! This is what I've been writing about for a long time. Even in school, English teachers taught that symbols should be used very carefully in stories etc. Because if you use them incorrectly, they will hijack your story. Symbols will turn stories into something different and possibly cause misreads among readers. If that happens the only blame that can be assigned is to the writer not the reader.
I mean who is the reader to trust anyway? A cultural symbol that is hundreds or thousands of years old or the writer's new pastiche?
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Re: The amazingly unbeta'd multimedia megahit!
Date: 2005-11-16 06:47 pm (UTC)I mean who is the reader to trust anyway? A cultural symbol that is hundreds or thousands of years old or the writer's new pastiche?