Look at this table covered with red cloth. Above is a cage the size of a fishbowl. It contains a white rabbit with pink nose and eye rims the same color. The rabbit has a piece of carrot in the front paws and chewed with relish. Drawn on the back takes eight legibly in blue ink.
Are we seeing the same thing? To be sure of everything would have to get together and compare our notes, but I think so. Of course it is inevitable that there are some variations: some receivers will see a maroon cloth, and more alive. (The recipient will see gray ash color blind.) You can see some decorations on the edge of the fabric. Decorative souls have added a little lace, and are quite free to do so. My tablecloth is yours.
Following the same principle, the issue of the cage leaves much room for individual interpretation. To begin with, has been described by a "comparison imprecise," which will be operative only if we see the world and measure things with similar criteria. When making comparisons inaccurate is easy to fall into disrepair, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun act of writing. What would he have said? What "is a cage over a meter deep, two feet wide and fourteen inches high"? More than prose would be a manual. The paragraph does not specify the material of the cage. Wire ¿? ¿Steel bars? ¿Cristal? Does it matter? We all understand that the cage is an object that allows you to view its contents. Otherwise we are indifferent. In fact, the most interesting thing is not even the rabbit eats carrots, but the number back. It is a six, a four and a nineteen point five. It's an eight. It is the focus of attraction, and we see them. Neither I nor you have told me you asked. I have not opened my mouth, nor you yours. Not even agree on the year, let alone in the room. And yet we are together. Very close.
They have touched our minds. "
Jean pierre Andres Borja C.
Stephen King
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