June 2013
4 posts
May 2013
15 posts
“Part of my suspicion of rereading may come from a false sense of reading as conquest. As we polish off some classic text, we may pause a moment to think of ourselves, spear aloft, standing with one foot up on the flank of the slain beast. Another monster bagged. It would be somehow less heroic, as it were, to bend over and check the thing’s pulse. But that, of course, is the stuff of reading—the going back, the poring over, the act of committing something from the experience, whether it be mood or fact, to memory. It is in the postmortem where we learn how a book really works.”
—Ian Crouch, “The Curse of Reading and Forgetting” (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1844-1962)
April 2013
31 posts
“We may have the same books, but we highlight entirely different passages”
—New Yorker cartoon
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
—Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via norbertcleeverhook)
