An amusing bit from Neil Peart in his latest installment of Bubba's Book Club:
Robertson Davies would certainly rank in my top handful of Canadian authors, and high on any international list, too. I first read these three novels thirty years ago, and in memory - looking at their faded spines on my bookshelves - their titles rang with an echo of deep enchantment.
That's how I remembered those books, and that's how they feel now, too. Reading them again was as enjoyable, as absorbing, and as impressive, as the first time, but was enhanced by a greater level of understanding from the reader. Elsewhere, Robertson Davies offered a perfect quote for that experience:
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon, and by moonlight.
(So I guess I have to read an awful lot of books at least one more time - and many more twice. Ah, life.)
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