The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
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The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
Reading Well - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water Reading Well
Simon Sarrismap.simonsarris.comWhat will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
no one told me about proust
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Book people, relax. I’m not looking to replace reading-for-pleasure with cheap AI-generated summaries. They’re hollow and void of joy. I don’t want the Spark Notes. I want the obscure excerpts hidden in Chapter 13, written in elegant prose, and eerily related to my exact stream of thought. They’re just impossible to find at the right moment. Can... See more