The act of finding literary
symbolism where there is none. Refers to a (n apparently deleted)
Not Always Right story in which students at a reading tell the author that their professor insists that s/he repeatedly included references to blue curtains because s/he is depressed, and the author replies
that blue is simply his/her favorite color.
Professor:
Sylvia Plath's "
Morning Song" talks about
The Fool's Journey...
Student: You found kabbalah, astrology and alchemy in a poem about giving birth? Sounds like a lot of blue curtains to me!
