“We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.”

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 325

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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