What rare insight Wordwind! Familiarity is a fundamental necessity of living, ergo, we must become familiar with our sensorial environment in order to move about it and eat and reproduce. But then your further extrapolation from Bradbury's sentence was just brilliant, viz.
Or it could be someone's way of expression that is so convoluted that you have to read what's written several times before you move from what was strange to a level of understanding. It could even apply to a political point of view that seems so strange that it is hard to make it feel familiar. Every man's conflict: The need to go through life surrounded by the familiar chant of the in-group, and the equal need to find new understandings about yourself and life by seeking out the strange.
It ain't easy to develop a taste for Beethoven when all your friends dig rap and hip hop. _________________________________________________________
