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How to Read: Finding meaning
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Evaluating Literature

Why bother? Evaluating literature is a useless, academic exercise—something that's best left to arid, tottering old professors.

What's worse . . . you can ruin a good story by trying to read too much into it. Right?

W-R-O-N-G !
How is it possible to "ruin" literature by deepening our understanding of it?