Bob, my responses:
"Why can't mechanisms be of interest, and susceptible to all kinds of interpretations."
Perhaps because they produce a formal static that inhibits translatability.
"As I jabber, I find I feel that the subject is too complex for anything less than a very long, terms-defined, essay."
Would you write one for the Argotist?
"When I compose, I feel my brain randomly tosses elements for use on the page and I choose among them--on the basis usually of how much they do for me, because I can only know that--but believing other human beings, or some other human beings, will have the same kind of brain and background as I and get similar pleasure from them. In a sense, the only reader/viewer I care about is me; in another, I want everyone to be able to experience my work pleasurably."
I see your point, that you have to interest yourself when you write. I agree, but I want the reader to have a unique exegetical experience also. I want a poem to produce a simultaneous performance of itself in the reader, so that there is overload and surplus of potential meanings.
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