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There are several authors whose books I have read and reread...some as many as 20 times. I have reread Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein numerous times. I have done the same with Ayn Rand for both the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (and I am still trying to find out what the conservatives seem to be reading into it). I do the same with movies having watched "Cinema Paridiso" numerous times and sharing it with friends as well as watching it myself just because I know I will cry some where near the end (happening a different spot each time) recognizing new and personally important ideas each time. I have laughed at and with The Women (1939; Roz Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer) trading lines with friends who have also seen the film during and after a re-watch ("On the train to Reno"; "My God, Your skin makes the Rockie Mountains look like chiffon velvet!"...). Books and films that I treasure, reread and re-watch are treasured friends that teach and reteach lessons, ideas and concepts that daily life can grind down and even destroy. Going back gives me a recharge and opportunity to see again old friends and old ideas that really are valuable to me.

Michael

Fort Myers, Florida