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Originally Posted by ApK
Beyond that, I'll have to take DD's play and speak only for myself personally. I do not take as much of the particular sort of pleasure I'm talking about in reading a substitute for a particular book that I really wanted to read. (Not even if it turns out that I happen to love the substitute...that's a DIFFERENT pleasure. For me.)
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Absolutely fair enough. As for me, I often stretch out books that I’m particularly looking forward to; once they’re read, they’re read, while the anticipation is entertainment in itself.
Still. I can’t help thinking that for someone who reads a lot, the transitory pleasure of even the most desired book is subsumed in the ongoing pleasure of one’s daily reading. They can’t all be most desired.