F. G. Peabody tells of a preface
in a certain book which had this startling sentence: “The purpose of this
book is that, being read, it may read
you.”
A book's preface reads "the purpose of this book is that, being read, it may read you"—suggesting that the greatest books examine and reveal the reader.
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