epigraph that begins No Two Persons is generally attributed to Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), a well-known American literary critic. You can find “no two persons ever read the same book” credited to Wilson on blogs, stickers, frameable artwork, and Twitter, along with pages and pages of Google links. Because I was curious, I tried to find the original source. I could not. In an introduction to The Triple Thinkers in 1938, Wilson did write the thought-provoking statement: “In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.” This
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