Read or analyse?

There’s been a lot of debate recently, on whether it is more important to read books, or analyse them, in a scholarly way(Obviously, ‘analyse them’ sounds as a more rigorous, sophisticated and high status answer)Now that’s what I think:I think of Gesta Romanorum. A medieval collection of entertaining stories, often bawdy ones, many of which were borrowed from the classical authors. But. The medieval monks who did the compilation did not just leave it as it is, but supplanted their stories with a commentary (a sort of ‘analysis’).That’s how it looks like:So, basically, every story - and these are usually naughty stories, has this ‘application’ section in the end. Where its contents are ‘analysed’ from the perspective of Christian morality.Obviously, all or almost all of this analysis is BS, in a sense, that the original author (remember, most stories are classic, coming from the Greco-Roman world) did not mean anything like that. Originally, it was the well-known ‘I hate my wife’ kind…