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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
No, the prohibition is still in force as to apply what we have read is just to draw parallels, while to see it as an allegory is to take those parallels and draw deeper significance or meaning from them.
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In which case 'reader-perceived' allegory and applicability are not the same thing, and the reader should be free to take the story as an allegory if that is how he or she genuinely perceives it.
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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
And the author tells us explicitly that this is not the meaning.
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He tells us that it is not
his intended meaning. But can it not still be the readers perceived meaning?