From: Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Growing old means there's always new books to read in your library. :-) Luv it! But there is more to it than is obvious (or at least let's try to dress it up a bit ;-) There is much to be said for re-reading a classic after 20-40 years.... That is, if one has not ceased to learn in the mean time. Since, along with advancing years and the occasional lapses in memory, some degree of "wisdom" can develop naturally in surprising ways (but this is far from guaranteed). IOW "entropy" in an overly complex system like the brain is not necessarily all bad. ... probably has something to do with dead neurons opening up pathways for new interconnections that were blocked previously ... and then ... it is like new insight - and it becomes possible to find a lot of insightful gems in that old library - that were not appreciated fully the first time around ... ... not to mention that many of us would rather reread a classic then try to grasp why the following generation of educated readers have found so much to talk about in unadulterated tripe. Whenever this particular senitment comes along, I think of such yawners like "The Color Purple" ... pullllleeeeze... I'd rather pull out the old boob-tube from the garage and dust it off. Jones
