>...many a salutary caution against over-reading what authors, 
>especially brilliant ones, write, as if every divined association a 
>sequence of words may conjure up were necessarily part and parcel of 
>authorial intentions, and not,  in good part, simply the ingenious 
>outcome of ingenuous obsessions on the part of the reader.

So true. But aren't the best authors (as the best generals are 
purported to be) the lucky ones?

Walter Miale

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