![]() ![]() That younger reader wasn’t wrong: it was ironic, it was metaphorical, it was a repeated image. And yet often, naive and excited as they seem, these comments are pretty much ones I might be making – if not so explicitly – several decades on. Key passages underlined, exclamations in the margin of “Irony!” or “Metaphor!” or “Repeated image!” and so on. ![]() ![]() Occasionally I will reread a book in exactly the same copy as I first did decades previously: and there, in, say, a student text of a Flaubert novel, I will find all those annotations which now, initially, embarrass. You know more, you understand both life and literature better, and you have the additional interest of checking your younger self against your older self. I f reading is one of the pleasures – and necessities – of youth, rereading is one of the pleasures – and necessities – of age. ![]()
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