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[edit] Ernest Jones

Sigmund Freud: Life and Work: Abridged by Lionel Trilling and Stephen Marcus. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Basic Books, New York

Quotes from the above article:

the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written, but by how they are read.
literary readers [in contrast to "unliterary"] reread books many times, savoring certain passages, and attempting to glean more from subsequent readings. ... literary readers define themselves by their favorite books.
judging books by whether they are "lowbrow" or "highbrow" is not necessarily fruitful; many "lowbrow" books prove to be valuable to a literary reader willing to approach without prejudgment.
books classified as "lowbrow", such as science fiction, are also capable of inducing a passion to re-read and imparting experience which changes reader's worldview.
books which are capable of doing this may prove to have enduring merit regardless of their genre of origin.
attempting to judge the literary merit of books based on traditional criteria may not prove fruitful.

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Evolution and the Theory of Games: Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 1, No. 3. pp. 382-403