This is the way it used to be in Austin (before my time). My father-in-law had a business downtown when he was young, and the meters were more expensive than the tickets. He'd rack the tickets up by the hundreds, until they changed the rules, and he found his car towed one day.
He maintained that allegory locked a reader into the author's interpretation of the work, rather than freeing him to explore their own meaning.
Your own example of a story/poem about a walk is roughly what Tolkein deplored: you loaded it with your own meaning, in order to deny others their own meanings.
Actually, about once a month the Alamo has Mr. Sinus Theatre...3 guys sitting in the front row making fun of the movie. Last month's showing was the Patrick Swayze class 'Red Dawn'.
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This is the way it used to be in Austin (before my time). My father-in-law had a business downtown when he was young, and the meters were more expensive than the tickets. He'd rack the tickets up by the hundreds, until they changed the rules, and he found his car towed one day.
Most definitely not true.
Tolkein was against allegory, not meaning.
He maintained that allegory locked a reader into the author's interpretation of the work, rather than freeing him to explore their own meaning.
Your own example of a story/poem about a walk is roughly what Tolkein deplored: you loaded it with your own meaning, in order to deny others their own meanings.
Actually, about once a month the Alamo has Mr. Sinus Theatre...3 guys sitting in the front
row making fun of the movie. Last month's showing was the Patrick Swayze class 'Red Dawn'.