to read is to surrender oneself to an endless.... : Quote by David Lodge

“ to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing ”

David Lodge
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