>Think how many words have been written trying to accurately decompress the full meanings in Hamlet, the Odyssey, or Beowulf. There's simply no way that more t

>Think how many words have been written trying to accurately decompress the full meanings in Hamlet, the Odyssey, or Beowulf. There's simply no way that more than a tiny fraction of the various meanings imputed by later literary analyses were actually intended by the authors. This is not a desirable property for a compression scheme.