The main reason I'm writing this is because I am familiar with the feeling of frustration you get when something you love is terribly "misread." I also know that with that feeling of indignation is a little hint deep inside that maybe you're the the one misreading things all along.I am grateful for the radical ... hmm, what term to use. Freedom, I guess? The radical freedom we have in the halls of our minds to interpret things as we want, as makes sense to us. You only have an obligation to make sense to others, or to be persuasive in your theories, when you enter into conversation... which, though, of course, most of us do
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One can argue that The Three Little Bears is a discourse on suicide, but I think it's fair for people to dismiss that theory, you know?
Haha! Yeah.
Re: Superman, I remember the furor over one comic where he relinquishes his US citizenship - clearly some thought of him as an American first and foremost, others saw him as a global citizen, some thought it was ok to give up your citizenship, others didn't... etc. But it was definitely the symbolic gesture of it that riled people up, not the content of the comic or the context in which "he made this decision." Many things to many people.
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Haha! Yeah.
Re: Superman, I remember the furor over one comic where he relinquishes his US citizenship - clearly some thought of him as an American first and foremost, others saw him as a global citizen, some thought it was ok to give up your citizenship, others didn't... etc. But it was definitely the symbolic gesture of it that riled people up, not the content of the comic or the context in which "he made this decision." Many things to many people.
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