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On reading
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:37 pm
by Hebrew Hammer
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“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Gossip on Romance” (1882), in Learning to Write 44, 44 (1920).
Re: On reading
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:39 pm
by Fat Cat
STFU Hippy.
Re: On reading
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:34 pm
by Hebrew Hammer
Fatty, I guess you're really down on reading after ten-plus years of those demanding reading lists from your community college courses. Once you get a degree, the fun of reading should come back. Give it a little time.
Re: On reading
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:42 pm
by Fat Cat
You are a buffoon.
Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:40 am
by nafod
Hebrew Hammer wrote:incapable of sleep or of continuous thought
Sadly, I often read in order to go to sleep.
Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:17 pm
by Turdacious
nafod wrote:Hebrew Hammer wrote:incapable of sleep or of continuous thought
Sadly, I often read in order to go to sleep.
So do many others, which explains why they buy Timmah's books.
Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:54 pm
by seeahill
The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:nafod wrote:Hebrew Hammer wrote:incapable of sleep or of continuous thought
Sadly, I often read in order to go to sleep.
Yes, on sale at fine bookstores everywhere....
So do many others, which explains why they buy Timmah's books.
Yes, on sale at fine book stores everywhere. Try:
The Literary Insomniac
From Booklist
When sleep will not come, restless insomniacs will value the company of
nearly two dozen of the better writers of the twentieth century. There are classics here (notably Chekhov's "Sleepy" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Sleeping and Waking" ), but most of the collection's contributors are of somewhat more recent vintage: in alphabetical order, Robert Antoni, Thomas Beller, Michael Brownstein,
Tim Cahill, Jonathan Carroll, Benjamin Cheever,
Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:07 pm
by Fat Cat
The mind boggles at Chekhov and Cahill in the same sentence.
Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:38 pm
by seeahill
Fat Cat wrote:The mind boggles at Chekhov and Cahill in the same sentence.
No doubt the reason I am treated with such respect here.
Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:58 pm
by Turdacious
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Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:59 pm
by Turdacious
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Re: On reading
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:11 pm
by seeahill
The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:Search results 1 - 10 of about 2,000 for book toilet paper tim cahill
Feel the love?