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Cytaty z tagiem "reading" [3]
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Understandably, humans need to know what kind of book they are about to read [...]. They need to know if it is a love story. Or a murder story. Or a story about aliens. Perhaps the book they have in their hands is a war story. It wouldn't be a surprise.
There are other questions too that humans have in bookstores. Such as, is it one of those books they read to feel clever, or one of those they will pretend they never read in order to stay looking clever? Will it make them laugh or cry? Or will it simply force them to stare out of the window watching the tracks of raindrops?
Is it a true story? Or is it a false one? Is it the kind of story that will work on their brain or one which aims for lower organs? Is it one of those books that ends up acquiring religious followers or getting burned by them? Is it a book about mathematics or - like everything else in the universe - simply because of it? [...]
Yes, there are lots of questions. And even more books. So, so many. Humans in their typical human way have written far too many
to get through. Reading is added to that great pile of things [...] that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.
I have a very early memories of seeing him reading in our library, and his concentration was such that nothing could disturb him, for everything outside the circle of his lamp was completely tuned out of his mind. [...] Seeing his intense absorption in reading, and the expressions that would appear on his face as he read (an involuntary smile, a grimace, a look of perplexity or delight), perhaps drew me to reading very early myself, so that [...] I would sometimes join him in the library, reading my book alongside him, in a deep but unspoken companionship.
Do you read novels?"
"When I have the tiome"
"So, no"
"I read when I can't sleep"
"So, regularly then".