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crln-16804	Kuehn, Evan F.	Reference, reading, and nonreading: Learning from Bayard (with a grain of salt)	2017-11-03	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1155	48	60	In his MLN essay “Pierre Bayard and the Death of the Reader,” Jack Abecassis identifies the important point that Bayard fails to make: “truly productive non-reading is parasitical on the right kind of prior reading.”2 News I received the intended laugh for the canned performative reinscription, but was also able to make the important point that (I assumed) Bayard also wanted to make: there will always be relevant books left unread, and we need to be comfortable with bib- liographic synthesis and measured opinion in the absence of comprehensive reading.	cache/crln-16804.pdf	txt/crln-16804.txt