‘Of course a few clues remain as to the originating feature that shaped the meander, but readers still might choose to ignore those and create homologies between your reading process and the experiences evoked through the writing. … Another reason [for the redaction] is that the meadow meander will be recreated during next spring, when the experiment will continue … through the addition of another version of the path…’

Speaking more politically. The puzzle of the maze seems to ‘work’ whether or not users know what it ‘represents’, but probably in very different ways. Yet, like everything else, what work it might be caused to DO very much depends on what it’s generally made to stand for. Think on what the wise Lew Archer said: Money costs too much.