{"id":17876,"date":"2014-03-10T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-entire-idea-of-rereading-implies-just-such-a\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:31:41","slug":"the-entire-idea-of-rereading-implies-just-such-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-entire-idea-of-rereading-implies-just-such-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The entire idea of rereading implies just such a likeable and progressive assumption about life, one that\u2019s meant to keep us interested in living it: namely, that as you get further along, you find out more valuable stuff; familiarity doesn\u2019t always give way to dreary staleness, but often in fact to celestial understandings; that life and literature both are layered affairs you can work down through. <\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Rereading a treasured and well-used book is a very different enterprise from reading a book the first time. It\u2019s not that you don\u2019t enter the same river twice. You actually do. It\u2019s just not the same you who does the entering. By the time you get to the second go-round, you probably know\u2014and know more about\u2014what you don\u2019t know, and are possibly more comfortable with that, at least in theory. And you come to a book the second or third time with a different hunger, a more settled sense about how far off the previously-mentioned great horizon really is for you, and what you do and don\u2019t have time for, and what you might reasonably hope to gain from a later look.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Richard Ford<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/eighteenbridges.com\/story\/rereading\">on rereading<\/a>. Lest we forget, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/21\/nabokov-on-what-makes-a-good-reader\/\">Nabokov put it best<\/a>:\u00a0<em>\u201cA good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.\u201d<\/em> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire idea of rereading implies just such a likeable and progressive assumption about life, one that\u2019s meant to keep us interested in living it: namely, that as you get further along, you find out more valuable stuff; familiarity doesn\u2019t always give way to dreary staleness, but often in fact to celestial understandings; that life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4Ek","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}