A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who im
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who im
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who im
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who im
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who im
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who im
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