There are books we read once, and other books that bear rereading. Then there are books we “never cease to read”, as Virgil the Grammarian says. 1 We come to these as churchgoers come to Mass on Sundays, “to dedicate the sacred study of literature to sacred days.” 2 These are works like Kālidāsa’s Cloud Messenger , or like Vergil’s Aeneid , which Macrobius compares to a temple in urging, “let us…