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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, <br>
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, <br>
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. <br>
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. <br>
:— ''Hamlet'' I, ''v''.}}
:— ''Hamlet'', I, v}}


Now, in all kinds of literature ''bar one'', “reading” is where the real magic happens. ''Construal''. It is the [[Emergent|emergent]] creative act and community consensus that renders ''Hamlet'' a timeless cultural leviathan and {{br|Dracula: The Undead}} forgettable pap.<ref>Maybe not ''that'' forgettable, come to think of it: it has stayed with me 15 years, after all.</ref> A literary work may start with the text, but it stays there barely a moment. The “meaning” of a literary work is ''necessarily personal'' to the reader: it lives between the reader’s ears, and within the cultural milieu that interconnects the reading population over the generations — ''all as construed by the apparatus between the reader’s ears''.
Now, in all kinds of literature ''bar one'', “reading” is where the real magic happens. ''Construal''. It is the [[Emergent|emergent]] creative act and community consensus that renders ''Hamlet'' a timeless cultural leviathan and {{br|Dracula: The Undead}} forgettable pap.<ref>Maybe not ''that'' forgettable, come to think of it: it has stayed with me 15 years, after all.</ref> A literary work may start with the text, but it stays there barely a moment. The “meaning” of a literary work is ''necessarily personal'' to the reader: it lives between the reader’s ears, and within the cultural milieu that interconnects the reading population over the generations — ''all as construed by the apparatus between the reader’s ears''.