Paul wrote (quoting VN); >"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. thanks - that IS the cite i was thinking of when i wrote "all reading is rereading." I knew he'd writ *something* like that. much obliged. etb