https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30937/famous-novelists-symbolism-their-work-and-whether-it-was-intentional begins: It was 1963, and 16-year-old Bruce McAllister was sick of symbol-hunting in English class. Rather than quarrel with his teacher, he went straight to the source: McAllister mailed a crude, four-question survey to 150 novelists <https://www.mentalfloss.com/section/literature>, asking if they intentionally planted symbolism in their work. Seventy-five authors responded. Here’s what 12 of them had to say. (The original responses were published <http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/> in *The Paris Review*.) In case you were wondering, McAllister eventually became an English professor. *(...continues...)* *Link from above:* https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/ *which carefully divides:* "In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction." *fwd tm* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L