Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.
The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.
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The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.
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