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| The Secret to Reading. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 27 2015, 11:32 AM (102 Views) | |
| crow | Oct 27 2015, 11:32 AM Post #1 |
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Our forum is even more about reading than it is about writing. I write more than most, but mostly, I read. I write once, but what I've written, I re-read several times. There are many ways of reading, and many ways of seeing. The human eye is notorious for seeing mostly what it expects to see, and failing to see what is actually there. We all do it, it's part of being human, but with practice, we can become more adept at subduing expectation and better at registering Reality. The eye sees patterns. The oft-used term 'pattern recognition' is surprisingly accurate. We look for patterns, and these patterns form the basis of communication. Things can look right, or look wrong, and like a boat hull: if it looks right, it is right. So much for the art of the writer. But what about the art of the reader? Words are the carrier for the concept. They are not the concept, itself. They are metaphors. They stand-in for the experience, or idea, being described. Many people focus only on the words, and so, miss the message. But words are simply symbols for the notions they represent. Like mathematical formulae: they contain nothing the cretin can understand. Ever. Re-reading will not help. Concentrating will not help. I am a cretin, when it comes to mathematics. And so I don't read mathematics. Words, though... I like words. I use them. Play with them. Fling them in the air like riches, and glory in my wealth. Did that sentence suggest a picture? Dollar bills, floating down around a greedy capitalist pig? Patterns and pictures. That stimulate the reader to create pictures of his own. Does writing stimulate you? If it doesn't, maybe you still don't know how to read. Or the writing, itself, is garbage. If there is any particular trick to reading, it is this: To read without judging. To focus back from the legions of words, and take in the legion as a whole. Instead of a scurrying mob of carelessly turned-out men, of differing appearance and height, some unshaven, some needing haircuts, some clumsy and gross, there is, instead, an impression of power and purpose, marching forwards to glory. Or, depending on how you read it, defeat. Edited by crow, Oct 27 2015, 11:38 AM.
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