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Invisible Cities lays immobile on my bookshelf. After reading 3/4s of it, I had to stop. Not because it's bad, but the opposite.

I can't bare the thought that I'll never be able to read it again for the first time and the thought paralyzes me. My mind, in denial, begs me to conclude, "If I never finish it, it will never end."

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I'm not sure if you're just waxing poetic or actually can't bring yourself to finish, but I'd highly recommend you do. As Calvino points out in "Why Read the Classics?" [0]

>Hence, whether we use the verb “read” or the verb “reread” is of little importance. Indeed, we may say:

>Every rereading of a classic is as much a voyage of discovery as the first reading.

> Every reading of a classic is in fact a rereading. Definition 4 may be considered a corollary of this next one:

> A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

[0] https://archive.is/aQdHv

It's funny that he wrote this. I think you and Calvino changed my mind! Thank you

Just come back to it after 15 years like me :)

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