>
> People a book is to be enjoyed, have fun. When I read a book buy
> Margerat Weis I don't sit there thinking about why she wrote about
> something. Or with Robert Johnson's book one of the Lightbringer trilogy
> who brings in the theme of vampires..OOO Gothic and vapirism. It's just
> a book for crying out loud, somebodies imagination.
>
> When I was at school one of my subjects was English, of course we
> studied poetry and mostly South African poets since I live in South
> Africa. One day we had a interview with one of the poets Sipho Sipambla.
> About 80% of the teachers interpretations of the poems made him either
> laugh your sigh. Humans read too much into things.
> That's all I can say. We take ourselves to seriously and must learn to
> laugh at ourselves. Try it sometime it might be refreshing.
>
> Jay
> Dragonheart.
>
Yes indeed, Jay, people do read books to enjoy them, but they also read
them for a number of other reasons which are equally valid. And many
people who read for enjoyment find a significant part of that enjoyment
through the process of examining a book closely to see what makes it tick.
If that isn't your cup of tea, fine, but don't deny us our pleasure, okay?
Mike Levy
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