Oh wait Mike's your A, I'm your B? > I > > see a familiar conversational pattern: A says X, B hears Y, A > > complains that B isn't listening properly actually of course Mike, as you say " makes a strong case .... that a poem is what the reader makes of it" then there's a "conversation..." then I say what I said (which is not anything like what you said I said...) by which time (but see the posts). I did have something to say about the literary criticism you summarise and its applicability to Mike's comments but, well, not right now. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html