He likes to be as involved in revivals as possible because a peculiar aspect of theatre is that plays ideally need to be reheard, rather than reread.
Most actors love scenes involving big, gushy Daniel Day-Lewis-style grapplings with conscience, but Mr. Haig seems as though he would rather be rereading "Bleak House".
We might choose to indulge in a trashy magazine rather than rereading the Bhagavad Gita.
And rather than rereading Susan Sontag or Roland Barthes who have written great books about photography I just want you to know that I know about those books, I own them and they are someplace.
This is another way of saying that "Stone Arabia" is a book that has to be reread rather than read.
The exceptions are rather surprising: I've reread On the Road and Tender is the Night a bunch of times, always fearing that they will fall short of my teenage infatuation – but they never do.
Gibson doesn't seem like the kind of person who has regrets, but with his redemption movie coming out, he probably still would rather you didn't reread the quotes below.
"The Koran turns out to be much better than I thought, now that I've reread it — or rather, read it".
I told myself that what I was doing wasn't nostalgic but, rather, therapeutic, and I promised myself that I would reread the article about Ellen Langer's study to make sure.
They should reread their history; there they will discover a rather different lesson.
If you'd rather not kill a tree, simply fire up your favourite word processor, type out your feelings, reread your false letter, then quit the program without bothering to save.
