Reading doesn't guarantee changing of the mind
If reading is one of the pleasures – and necessities – of youth, rereading is one of the pleasures – and necessities – of age. You know more, understand life better, and have the additional interest of checking your younger self against your older self.
I don’t think you are a more intelligent reader at sixty-five than at twenty-five; just a more subtle one.
There is a rarer changing of the mind: when a writer to whom you had previously been indifferent, indeed almost despised, suddenly makes sense to you, and you realize, with, yes, a kind of joy, that at last you have seen the point of them.
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