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This personal involvement in creating the meaning of a book naturally engages our reflection and discernment, our critical sense and moral faculties. And, by engaging them, reading also stretches and strengthens them, helping them to develop and expand, to become more responsive, not only more attuned and accurate but also more supple, more flexibl... See more
Message from Pope Francis: Read a Novel
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It is easy enough in retrospect to see a book as a screen, a shield, an escape, but at the time there was just the magic—the startling and renewable discovery that a page covered with black markings could, with a slight mental exertion, be converted into an environment, an inward depth populated with characters and animated by diverse excitements.
... See moreSven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.’ […]
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #98
Fiction is invention, but it is not lies. It moves on a different level of reality from either fact-finding or lying.