[lbo-talk] A second read of Jane Jacobs

[// ravi]

On Sep 2, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 06:57 PM 9/2/2011, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> You can't step into the same book twice.
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>> Sure you can. Every time I think I'm going to die, I re-read Chekhov's short stories. Because he forgives all and because they get better with each reading. Works like a charm.
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> That's what I mean.  If they get better, they're not the same book.  You change and the book changes.  And part of your change is a result of reading and then rereading the book.  It's a marvelous thing.

I assumed as much… that yours was an allusion to the quote about stepping into the same river.

Thank you for the responses, all. When I wrote that her insights might have become commonplace, I did not mean to imply that they have been implemented - but rather that everyone seems to know and repeat her thoughts perhaps without knowledge of her: one of those “they say …” thoughts. In reality, as Carrol points out, she has lost the war against zoning.

I am going to plod on, reassured (and made less cynical) by your responses.

	—ravi