I've been dying to say that

[jferer]

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From: jferer
Subject: Re: I've been dying to say that
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5783] I've been dying to say that
Date: 8/5/00 1:35 pm  (ET)

I believe in talking about the things we enjoy, and a mark of a great
work of art is the amount of discussion it can generate. It increases our
enjoyment and makes us more sophisticated readers of the next book. The
amount of discussion the HP books generate is enormous. Good!

Where people go wrong is in all the overprocessing that goes on. English
departments are notorious for this. I've attended lectures where the
discussions of the 'symbolism' in a literary work had gotten completely
out of hand and could not be in any justified by what was down on
paper. This happened with Tolkien's works until he stuck his hand in
and said it was all rubbish.