Well, I certainly would not miss going back to reading stories. This theory sounds like a cross between something so obvious and something so ludicrous. Perhaps its application is a bit silly. Of course, though everything can be symbolized by other things (as in Gulliver's Travels in Book III), but different people may associate the same object with different symbols based on different experiences, even within the same culture. Also, because psycho-analysis was talked about in relation to semiotics prejudices me, as I happen to think that psychoanalysis is, overall, though it is an interesting theory with interesting ideas, silly. Semiotics is also a theory that is very interesting and can be taken very far and wild (not a typo, I do mean wild, not wide), it should be put into practice very conservatively as it does not seem to be a very practical system of analysis (if, indeed, such a system exists!)