Hi aaronl,
After searching for some time now, the closest I could come to any
similiarity to this is the following:
"The point made by the old and worn joke that makes someone saying "I
won't know what I have written until I've read it, will I?" comes to
mind, a more pertinent comment could perhaps be "I don't know exactly
what I meant until I have rewritten it". When asked about what he
meant to say in this or that work of his, the novelist and poet used
to answer: "I meant what I wrote". But he also is recorded to have
commented upon the papers of a conference on his writings, that he had
never before thought of many of the meanings now attributed to his
works. Such a comment is not necessarily ironic, I should rather think
it refers to a common experience for many a writer: the text not only
takes on new meanings or loses some of its old meanings as the world
changes around the text, but it also unfolds new kinds of possible
meanings - or even new kinds of meaninglessness."
Hopefully another researcher will have better luck.
Regards,
rainbow~ |
