I am sure that we're all familiar with the beginning to Huck Finn,
"...All persons attempting to find a moral will be shot." Twain is
obviously being sarcastic, and I can't help but be reminded of Twain
when I read the last few lines of DD, "and this is not to be interpreted
metaphorically. The function of the image is to be, not to mean." I am
not suggesting that the opposite is true, as it is with Twain, but
meerely that Drucker confuses this seemingly clear last statement. I
think that she is saying, as Matt did on Monday, that looking for the
meaning of the book in the last few lines is dangerous.
Carter