but in practice...

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    '...No thoughtful writer, however, would want to the reader
    to experience only what was intended and nothing else...'

    Really ?

    The idea that a serious writer who has done his best to clarify
    his thoughts & then sweated out the cleanest & most economical
    way of expressing them should wish to have them muddied &
    encrusted by the random associations of some well-meaning hick
    - that strikes me as ludicrous.

    Equally ludicrous seems to me the idea of writing as some kind
    of co-operative effort between two sensitively thoughtful participants.
    Most of the really powerful writers I've known or read about had
    the attitude: 'Take it or leave it....I'm giving you all a damned sight
    more than you deserve...'

    I should like to have responded to Will but unfortunately have not
    the faintest idea what he's talking about.  I presume I'm excused
    any attempt to guess his intentions.

    Scottie B.

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