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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Wow! Yes. And sometimes it takes a little time to really understand the intimacy, the whole meaning, doesn't it? How many times have I read a book saying "Nice story." Read it again a couple more times and said, "Oh. THAT was the message." I remember, for example, reading Hesse's Siddartha at age 17, and upon reading it again at 30, I found a completely different story within those covers. Then, too, when I write I often do not know what I am writing about until I am finished! I think I'm writing about one thing and am surprised that that was not it at all. Maybe others experience this? Words. I love words.

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Tom Pendergast's avatar

Well put Charles. A good story rings a bell deep within us, rings it so clearly that sometimes we can hear it for years afterwards. And not just a novel--your piece the other day about being viewed with horror in the subway rang that bell for me too.

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