to the author's hypothetical reading. Yet it is clear that the scholar-reader brings another component to the reading, namely his awareness of the difference between what he brings to the text and what the author or his contemporaries presumably did. (Santayana somewhere tells about the man who built a perfect reconstruction of an eighteenth-century house. There was only one anachronism in it: himself.) Part of the interest of reading any literary work is the sense of participating in another "world."