A real book
reads us. I have been read by Eliot's poems and by Ulysses and by Remembrance
of Things Past and by The Castle for a good many years now, since early youth.
Some of these books at first rejected me; I bored them. But as I grew older and
they knew me better, they came to have more sympathy with me and to understand
my hidden meanings. - Lionel Trilling
Mr. Trilling was intrinsically perspectival, with a good slap on the ego for good measure.
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