| Juanita: | (shrugging her head) Hmm. This poem seems a bit dead to me. |
| Jack: | Well, if you forget about meaning & just focus on the sound, it's okay . . . |
| Shu: | (nodding) Yeah. Maybe we are too rigid about meaning. Jack Daniels and Jim Beam helped me realize that! |
| Ella: | (shrugging her shoulders) How can we ever understand what authors say? At best, it seems that we only get brief glimpses. Most of the time, the world is opaque. |