“We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. Books need time to dawn on us, it takes time to understand what makes them, structurally, in thematic resonance, in afterthought, and always in correspondence with the books which came before them, because books are produced by books more than by writers.”
— Dec 09, 2025 05:46PM
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