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[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 11:48, Terrance wrote:
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> > I think we're on to something here. After all, didn't VN famously say "all
> > reading is rereading" - and that notion is important to Kinbote and to _Pale
> > Fire_, as all the haggling here about how to (re)read it proves. Perhaps
> > Pynchon's moved on to "all television is reruns"?
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> I don't think VN said that. 


"Incidentally, I use the word READER very loosely. Curiously enough, one
cannot READ a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major
reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell
you why . When we read a book for the first time the very process of
laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page
after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very
process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about,
this stands between us and artistic appreciation . . ..(goes on too long
to type out but you get the idea) "

Lectures on Literature, p 3.