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scherado wrote:

Hermit wrote:

scherado wrote:No one, nobody should do anything other than read the actual works; NOT second-hand analysis.

What's wrong with second-hand analysis? ...

If you don't read the work itself and get second-hand analysis, then it can't speak to you.

That does not square with

scherado wrote:No one, nobody should do anything other than read the actual works; NOT second-hand analysis.

Also, I note you chopped the sentence immediately following the one you did quote out, so I repeat it here: "I for one am not sufficiently arrogant to imagine nobody's comments could teach me something or at least give me something to think about."