I have often suspected that literary critiques and infinite English papers attribute themes, symbolism, and other literary devices to the story that the author in no way intended...or was even aware of, and that to attribute such things is nothing more than self-serving (for a grade or for a living) mental masturbation.
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Date: 2008-01-28 04:38 pm (UTC)But that's just me.