What is the value of personal interpretation in literature? For instance, should the final paragraph in "The Society of Others" by William Nicholson have one single meaning for every reader, or should every reader take away their own meaning from it, even against the author's intentions?
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Everything we perceive is filtered by our previous experiences therefore everything we perceive is subject to our personal interpretation. Most of the times this interpretation is unconscious and we may not even be aware of it.
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Can you expand upon that?
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