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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 632657" data-attributes="member: 4937">kkokie: Here is a fine example.  I apparantly wasn't clear enough.  "you do not appreciate nor approve of each individuals personal interpretation...Everyone is intitled to their own interpretation, just as they are intitled to an opinion."Err... where did I say anything about appreciating or approving?  Some people complain about how wordy my writing is, but here clearly I guess I had to say something like, "Don't get me wrong.  I neither approve or disapprove of each individual's personal interpretation.  I'm not disagreeing with anyone's right to judge or experience my work however they see fit."  The reason my writing is wordy is pinning down exactly what I mean is often so hard.  I know what I mean, but I can't be certain whether you are going to understand after one sentence or five.  I don't know whether you would have understood after one sentence, but that that fifth will just muddle things.  I err on the side of caution in hope that I don't have to come back and explain to people that it isn't about me judging what they got out of my work in part because sometimes I never get a second chance to speak to that person.  You are entitled to judge me however you please.  If, no matter what I say, you want to judge from my writing that I'm the sort of person who thinks that everyone has to agree with me, then you have every right to do so and clearly there is nothing I can do about that.  If, no matter what I write, you think I am the sort of person who thinks that everyone's opinion that isn't identical to my own is wrong, then well you are intitled to feel that way too.But the point is I would have done a very bad job  conveying what I believe if my intention was to explain myself.And, when I write a book, my intention is to communicate something.  If I don't communicate that something, then I haven't done a very good job as a writer and I feel all my effort was wasted.     Yes, you may have every right to get out of some particular sentence that I wrote some meaning that is affirming to you, but I labored to constuct that sentence so you would understand me - and you didn't.And that is very frustrating.</blockquote>

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