Fiona Moore wrote:
The artwork _is_ the message. It stands or falls on its own.
- Sometimes it's difficult to work out what the author means, in B7 as much
as in other texts.
And some of us don't much care. :)
After all, to take your Shakespeare example, if Shakespeare *had* left more in the way of notes as to what he intended, there would be a lot more agreement as to how his plays should be performed.
And I suspect the theater would probably be much poorer for it...