Saw this posted on another forum. Sorry if this was posted before (I did a quick search):
"Document: The Symbolism Survey"
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By Sarah Funke Butler December 5, 2011
Books
In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors of literary, commercial, and science fiction. Did they consciously plant symbols in their work? he asked. Who noticed symbols appearing from their subconscious, and who saw them arrive in their text, unbidden, created in the minds of their readers? When this happened, did the authors mind?
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/...bolism-survey/
P.S. I edited my original post; I duplicated the first paragraph in the post. I included this P.S. so the first two replies have context.