It may well have been a question of acclimatization. That's a great way of putting it, by the way. I find this is often the case with any great work that is re

It may well have been a question of acclimatization. That's a great way of putting it, by the way. I find this is often the case with any great work that is remote from where one is, whether in time or culturally or aesthetically. One must be willing to put in an initial good faith investment to "fund" the effort of reading it, with the expectation of profit later. Usually it begins to pay off before too long. Sometimes it never does. Here's an interesting question. Among books that one has truly appreciated (i.e. excluding total writeoffs), which took the longest time before you broke even?