Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ...
by pavel_lishin on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:31AM
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If I read Larry Niven's "Protector" in 2002, and re-read it again today in 2018, is it the same book, or a new book?
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Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ...
by eesmith on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:25PM
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Or "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
There are stories I reread after many years, where I had a rather different understanding the second time. I'm fine with saying that it's the same text but a different story, because the text is interpreted by the reader to become the story.
I'm also fine with saying it's the same story. The Mississippi is the Mississippi even though it isn't the same river.
Re:Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight ...
by AnthonBerg on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:07PM
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Is it the same person reading?