"want to have a beer with yourself from then"--TRP , paraphrase I'm sure.

[Danny Weltman]

I first read In Search of Lost Time when I turned 25 and resolved to read
it if/when I turn 50 and (even more tenuously) 75, at the very least - I
can't think of a better set of books to reread as one grows older.

Danny

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> John Sutherland, heavy reader/critic/teacher in HOW TO BE WELL READ
> presents
> in this book--as a felt mystery---his wonder at his/our different
> responses to a novel when reread after much time has passed. His
> example herein was Zulieka Dobson.
>
> My most surprising example is The Stranger, read in my later teens vs.
> recently. (And The Old Man & the Sea in a different story/way).
>
> Only one person I know--you know who you are---seemed to plan to
> reread at least one book a few times over his lifetime knowing it
> would 'change' as he grew older. Interesting foreknowledge.
>
> Worth riffing on, maybe?
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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