NP but also for P : what is needed are amateur readers with naive, even innocent, interpretations

[Mark Kohut]

Times essay on teaching Ulysses - the Joyce version. http://bit.ly/cHwdr
 
Or, in non-fiction book I'm reading, an Arab prisoner at Gitmo in 2006 reading Moby Dick. 
Asking his appointed lawyer: Why is Ahab so obsessed? He has everything he needs; he is still in charge (of a ship; of himself)
What's one leg if you're free?