01-19-2014, 02:43 AM
Sorry for replying to myself, but I thought of an analogy. I never think about sex, but it occured to me that if I ever read pornographic writing, I imagine that I might distinguish between it and erotic writing by how literal it is. Overly literal writing about sex could be crude, I have heard.
Also, if you have to conjure up a meaning, it involves your eroticism in inventing an image and a meaning.
I have similar taste in visual art, music and writing. In my past I encountered a lot of people who liked abstract art but would say "it's not music" if it didn't meet a set of predefined notions of what music is.
There is a place between free association and sub-literal writing, where the first is naive or bad and the second isn't, in my opinion.
Also, if you have to conjure up a meaning, it involves your eroticism in inventing an image and a meaning.
I have similar taste in visual art, music and writing. In my past I encountered a lot of people who liked abstract art but would say "it's not music" if it didn't meet a set of predefined notions of what music is.
There is a place between free association and sub-literal writing, where the first is naive or bad and the second isn't, in my opinion.