OK, I get that, like the punch line of a joke, the part that gets the reaction may only make sense given all that lead up to it. But I'm skeptical. I've seen

OK, I get that, like the punch line of a joke, the part that gets the reaction may only make sense given all that lead up to it. But I'm skeptical. I've seen a few too many "Rorschach aphorisms" where some readers, really wanting to believe that the text has some important meaning for them, end up inventing it for what is essentially trite or content-free.