Bob Yoon writes (in part): >There are many works I didn't appreciate until I took theory classes. >I began to see things that I never bothered to look for and now I wonder >why I never saw it before. ... My analogy is try giving a Fitzgerald, >Faulkner, Joyce, or a Nabokov novel to a 6th or 7th grade. Fully admitting to being the 7th grader in this metaphor, I think I prefer baseball to literature. There is a big difference between literally not being able to get through something (like most 12 year olds with Ulysses) and not appreciating the subtleties, but still being able to have a good time. I don't want to push my metaphor too hard either, but a lot of people find baseball boring for lack of action, but I could tell you what's happening all over the field pitch by pitch and can often see action everywhere. >It's a combination of education, maturity, and exposure that affected the >degree to which I can enjoy certain works. ...and I think a 1-0 game with only about 57 batters would be an extraordinary game to watch, but my kid probably wouldn't. William Jenks