We Are What We Read
Tell me who you are so I might better understand who I am. Ultimately, that is why we read. To better understand who we are.
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
What if the patterns and arrangements, the images and poetics in literature become part of us as we carry the burdens of our own lives? What if we could stand in different relation to our experiences? Could the stories we carry about our experiences…loosen? Fall away and become sediment? Rearrange themselves? Change form? Could I read my own past t
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