“The truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave [them] something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself. For my own part, I am eternally paying [them] compliments of this kind, and do all that lies in my power to keep [their] imagination as busy as a my own.” —Laurence Sterne in Tristam Shandy, via The Reading Process—A Phenomenological Approach
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