John Thanks for your description - now you have caught my attention. Let us agree that having the choice of creating ambiguity (or not, depending on purpose and context) is an artistic choice. Futher the consequences can be salutary in the extreme - the kind of thing you describe as a positive opening up, a drug experience or being turned into out. Now let's make a couple of distinctions: 1. ambiguity is a event in which the surface strucutre of the verbal presentation can be mapped onto more than one underlying meaning. For example, "Murdering peasants can be dangerous." The two meanings are (roughly, 1. To murder peasants can be dangerous 2. Peasants who murder can be dangerous This situation arises in English (but not necessarily other languages) by the rules of the syntax (form) of the language which permits two distinct underlying meanings to be mapped onto (or represented by) a single string of words. This linguistic phenomenon (ambiguity) is to be sharply distinguished from vagueness as in "Someone did something." Now, help me appreciate the sense in which you attempt to create an ambiguity between form and content as you proposed in your posting. It may be that we are using ambiguity in a distinct sense but have a shot at it, please. John So, help