Man, I always hated the "derive symbolism" thing and I always think of an Amy Tan quote - she met a baby Ph.D. who had done her thesis on The Joy-Luck Club, and of course said baby Ph.D. was so excited to meet Ms. Tan, and told her all about the thesis she'd done on the symbolism of the number 4 in The Joy-Luck Club and asked had she gotten it right, and Ms. Tan was like "uhhhh, there was symbolism to the number four?"
And when I'm writing, yeah, sometimes I am picking a symbol very specifically a la the green light, but most of the time, dude, idfk, I put some words in there to describe a thing.
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Date: 2018-11-30 01:03 am (UTC)And when I'm writing, yeah, sometimes I am picking a symbol very specifically a la the green light, but most of the time, dude, idfk, I put some words in there to describe a thing.