"S.E. Nte" wrote:
> I wrote:
> > > to have much more power or maybe just a different power. Maybe one is more
> > > romantic/idealistic at that stage of life...
> >
>
> Heiko wrote:
> > I dont understand what you mean by that or why you write this. A text is a
> > text is a text. Do you think reading is just for teenagers ? Certainly
> > not.
> >
> >
>
> Heiko, maybe I didn't make myself clear. What I meant was that what you
> personally get from a text changes as you get older. When I read certain
> poems as a teenager I didn't always understand some of the more subtle
> meanings which I understand when I read them now as an adult. I think that
> as a teenager I often interpreted things in terms of what I hoped they meant
> rather than what they really meant....which is why I say that as a teenager
> one often reads things in a more romantic/idealistic manner.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
I agree with Sol. It's the same with music, one's abiltity to receive the message
and have a response changes over the years. I think it's biological. And frankly,
I no longer care if it's a rational response.
RA
