<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Lee Berman <A href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</A><BR></FONT><BR>>>James Wynn: I mean, I might have just been lucky in picking my interpretation. However, it brings <BR>>>to mind Lee's young woman/crone picture analogy. Or, Stephen King's ink blot/picture of <BR>>>Jesus analogy in "The Shining". When I read it, I said "Oh, Pike, Blood, Rose of Sharon."</DIV>
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<DIV>Would you mind making the connection for me among those three disparate nouns? (Not the</DIV>
<DIV>connection among the characters.) Or point me to someplace in the archives?</DIV>
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<DIV>> Personality conflicts and testosterone levels matter. Even metaphor choice. In the past I used the lovers-<BR>> dolphins optical illusion to make my point and failed to make it. But the young woman-crone seemed to resonate<BR>> better, probably because as Antonio so aptly noted, she is a shapeshifter. Always easier to "believe" in <BR>> something we see happening right in front of us.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>If we're collecting these, Nabokov was fond of them: "Find What the Sailor Has Hidden" puzzles, or from</DIV>
<DIV>/Pale Fire/:</DIV>
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<DIV>"In life, the mind<BR>Of any man is quick to recognize<BR>Natural shams, and then before his eyes<BR>The reed becomes a bird, the knobby twig<BR>An inchworm, and the cobra head, a big<BR>Wickedly folded moth."</DIV>
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<DIV>We're not always that quick even in life. And of course, most of the time in life and often even in reading we're</DIV>
<DIV>right to read a reed as a reed.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jerry Friedman</DIV></div><br>
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