I'm reading all these brilliant critical analyses and thinking about how much time it'd take me before I'd reach their level, if I ever do--to think so insightfully.

Now wouldn't it be funny if we went back in time and found out that all these authors wrote just becaues they felt like it? & there was no analyses involved, no depth, nothing. They just wrote because they wanted to write. The bird wasn't a symbol; the author just liked birds a lot. Those colors weren't mentioned for a reason; the author just jotted down the first color they saw. There were no Biblical allusions; the author just really loved the Bible.

& all our time would be wasted. All those essays, all those words for nothing.

What lovely thoughts run through my mind.