Was thinking about the relationship between elision and
interpretation.
If I say, "Brahms is too serious for my taste," I'm stating an
opinion that is in part an *elision* of Brahms, omitting
compositions like the Hungarian Dances, the waltzes, the string
serenades. Or if I say, "Chris Rock's comedy is racist," I'm
stating an opinion that elides all the nonracist Chris Rock
comedy. To be even more extreme, if I say the second George
Herbert poem, "Love" is about love, then I'm eliding all the
other parts of the poem, for example, the fire symbolism.
Can you really interpret anything without eliding part of it?
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