I certainly do see more on each reread of a classic, but I think of it as part of the same psychological process by which I see more each time I watch a TV show or movie: one notices new details, or ascribes new meaning to them. And I suppose some part of that must be from thing I have learned or ways I have changed since the previous time, but it's hard to judge how much that's true. My central perceptions don't seem to change much. Does that mean I'm hidebound, or that I'm consistent? Perhaps a bit of both.
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Date: 2008-05-15 05:41 pm (UTC)