Reading as transaction
It's probably happened to you before: There was some article, poem or story that you really loved, and you told your friend to read it. They did, and maybe they said, "Yeah, it was good," but they just didn't seem affected by it like you were. How do we account for two people having vastly different experiences with the same piece of text?
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