T-Rex: Any creative work is a collaboration between the capital-a Author and Reader. All are dead and lifeless until they're experienced and interpreted by someone!
T-Rex: That someone is me, baby!
T-Rex: And if I'm an adult and I re-read a book I loved as a child, I'll get different things out of it, just as I'll get different things out of it when I read it again as an old man. Even if I'm the author of the text, my reactions to it will be different! I know this because I remember my high school essays were AMAZING, but when I read them now, SOMEHOW, they're pages and pages of ultimate embarrassment.
Utahraptor: Shakespeare needs tons of notes to be readable today!
T-Rex: Exactly!
T-Rex: So we agree that even with an identical text, the meaning of a work is constructed by the Reader, and that meaning changes with time as the readers themselves change. And this applies to books, movies, games, paintings: anything creative!
Utahraptor: Sure. We are agreed! So what's your point?
T-Rex: My point? Utahraptor, if we wait till we're old to experience all the creative works we want to, we're doomed. We simply won't get the same enjoyment than what we'd get now! Put simply, Utahraptor, my point is this:
T-Rex: Wanna take the day off and play video games?
