I really enjoyed reading this, @shadowspub. Writing often gives us many clues that we might breeze right past, or perhaps not see them for what they are.

For example, I believe I have read The Catcher in the Rye at least three times, but it wasn’t until the most recent reading that I understood how depressed Holden Caulfield is throughput the story. Every melancholic writer deals with the subject of the blues in a different way, which makes it really interesting to study them. In graduate school I had an entire class devoted to Virginia Woolf, and we read and discussed one of her novels each week. I felt I had only just begun unraveling her mysteries by the end of the class.