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Originally Posted by barryem
How is it totally different? In what way? If you discuss a book with him does his having listened or read it affect the nature or validity of his comments and opinions?
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You have - hopefully - read the text as written by the author. They have listened to an interpretation of this text by a third party. Also, given how much richer in side channels - and hence in opportunities for said third party to convey their own interpretation - the spoken word is compared to the written word, I'm not sure how it is possible to not see those two things as totally different.