Each time a reader meets a given text, something is different. Not only have time and the circumstances of the reader changed, but the reader has likely acquired new learning, modified certain perspectives, and encountered fresh insight or discovered a puzzle heretofore not seen; the text is the same, but other things have changed. In this respect, this reader is a changed reader and so, in a certain sense, a new reader; and though bringing along the memory of previous encounters with the text in question, this new reader is meeting this text in a new context, as if for the first time.
