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A comment on In the Basement of the Ivory Tower. Parent comment

Re:In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by neodude on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @07:42AM (#247495)
Trick the mind, not the person. Symbolism may convey something you can't understand through normal conversation.
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Re:In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by william42 on Thursday July 17, 2008 @04:29AM (#248336)
I'll grant this. However, I'm willing to say that most literary criticism is based off of imagined rather than real symbolism.
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