Sammiches bearing interest

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Stefan writes:
> 
> Be all this as it may, I think Seany brings up a couple of important
> points: Reading is work that one does with a "text," and the most
> interesting "texts" are those that afford us the opportunity to do the most
> work, especially if we are interactive/interoperative with the "text."
[...]
> 
> I'm tossing out ideas here and certainly welcome insights of "readers." I
> think Seany has at least a psychological insight in saying that "when we
> >put in a large amount of work in effort to understand something, we tend to
> >become a little more protective of our status on that something, whatever it
> >is. I think it's safe to say that as a group we expect more out of the novels
> >we read as well as we expect more out of ourselves as readers."
> 
> ... & because we're such good "readers," perhaps we make a more interesting
> novel of GR?

OK, so interesting texts are those that bear the most interest? re. 
reader-effort, etc. (not to mention interest). Interesting notion, 
which has borne a lot of interest in the past (which makes it, of 
course, double-thick interesting with extra pickles). A little 
tautological, but the best equations are - I can buy it.

hg
hag at iafrica.com