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Re:On Unread Books by gallerdude on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:32PM (#15626036)
I've felt a very small version of this in watching certain movies. When I saw Stand By Me, I understood Stranger Things and Super 8 a lot more.
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Re:On Unread Books by sanderjd on Saturday November 04, 2017 @02:39PM (#15626305)
For sure, context can have a multiplicative effect on the value of a text. This article seems to be arguing that context is the value itself, which doesn't quite ring true to me.
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