"All her traveling and all her reading and all her eavesdropping had not prepared her for this. It was an exhibition of the insides of bodies. Worminfested hearts, flatulent inflated livers, stomachs stretched like limousines, ulcerous intestines, brains mashed to the consistency of gray scrambled eggs. She supposed they were all composed of artificial matter, but it mattered not to her. Joe was unperturbed. He looked at her ashen face and asked, "Are you feeling homesick?""
Stern, Lesley. The Smoking Book. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. p. 191.
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University of Chicago Press
“Similarly, the syntactic flexibility found in many classical Chinese lines—indefinite positioning, indeterminate relationships, ambiguous and multiple functions of certain parts of speech, and so forth—allows the reader to retrieve a similar space of freedom for viewing, feeling, and reading, a space which the reader stays in the middle ground, engaging with and disengaging from the objects appearing on the perceptual horizon.”
Yip, Wai-lim. Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. p. 33.
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University of California Press
“A stern-looking man, heavyset, bespectacled, hair shiny and combed with an impeccable part. He sits behind a desk, reading a book. He wears a suit with peaked lapels, double-breasted vest, high-collared white shirt and bow tie.”
Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. p. 195.
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Bloomsbury
“Yang Fudong’s project underlines where poets do go already – wherever humans are found culturally and we ought to shamelessly seize the project of being actors, sages, scholars ourselves, walking around without a story or a line. Without a panel, a reading or a talk. Maybe just a pulse. And call that art.”
Myles, Eileen. “calling all poets.” Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, June 23, 2009.
Poetry Foundation
“‘In the telling we create mental images in our listeners that might normally be produced only by the memory of events as recorded and integrated by the sensory and perceptual systems of the brain. . . . In hearing or reading another’s words we literally share another’s consciousness, and it is that familiar use of language that is unique to man.’”
Harry J. Jerison, Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. New York: Academic Press, 1973. Quoted in Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983. p. 256.
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University of California Press
“But you do have to learn to love books, you do have to learn how to read them, you do have to learn that a book is a companion, and this is done in a great many different ways. I think we can do a great deal by having more copies of the same book, perhaps less expensive books, in the libraries so that we can have a good many people reading the same books and coming together for discussion.
I know, for instance, that even in a small group, like a family, we all want to read one book at the same time, and we all want to tear each other's hair out when we can't get a copy. It seems to me that here is something we should be thinking about, to stimulate the reading of books in families and large groups of people. I think the CCC has made me realize this.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. “What Libraries Mean to the Nation - April 1, 1936.” Archives of Women’s Political Communication. Accessed June 21, 2021.
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Iowa State University
“In the extreme case, when we are copletely absorbed by a task, we cease to monitor our environtment. You have probably experienced the absorbed state when you are reading a book, are thinking deeply about a problem, or are in the midst of a crisis that, as the expression goes, demands your attention. The use of a computer is often so stressful and difficult that a user will become absorbed in working on the computer system, and therefore distracted from the completion of tasks.”
Raskin, Jef. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2011. p. 26.
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DocShare
“As we are moved to assent their very existence (an actual existence in art, a possible existence in life), somehow we come to incorporate their world and their history into ours. Reading a work of literature is a transaction with persons in history, a continuing dialogue.”
Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Literature, History, and Humanism: An Americanist's Dilemma." College English 24, no. 5 (February 1963): 371.
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JSTOR
“Lightning blasts the guilty dream
& I see him
reading in the little auditorium
& hear him
confidently reading
careful of his timing
anxious not to take
more than his share of reading time
filling our hearts with rejoicing
seeing him alive
doing the work he was here for
seemingly among us now”
Low, Jackson Mac. “32nd Light Poem: In Memoriam Paul Blackburn 9-10 October 1971.” 22 Light Poems. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
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thing.net
“For the others are multiplying, those hybrid articles that sketch out imbroglios of science, politics, economy, law, religion, technology, fiction. If reading the daily paper is modern man's form of prayer, then it is a very strange man indeed who is doing the praying today while reading about these mixed-up affairs.”
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. p. 2.
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Harvard University Press
“Resistance was often more subtle than revolts, escapes and sabotage. It involved, for example, the clandestine acquisition of reading and writing skills and the imparting of this knowledge to others. In Natchez, Louisiana, a slave woman ran a ‘midnight school,’ teaching her people between the hours of eleven and two until she had ‘graduated’ hundreds.”
Davis, Angela. Women, Race & Class. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983. p. 59
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Internet Archive
“There is some question as to whether temporal information in the form of some sort of internal clock reading may be part of the image. It is our feeling that the ability to make temporal discriminations can be explained on the basis of contextual information and counting processes, rather than on the basis of a clock reading recorded on the image.”
Atkinson, R. C., and R. M. Shiffrin. Some Speculation on Storage and Retrieval Processes in Long-Term Memory. Technical paper. Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University. 1968. p. 11.
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UC San Diego
“A list of 16 words was read in a random order over and over again until the subject had learned all the words in the list. After each reading of the list the subject would write down all the words he could remember. Each reading of the list was in a new random order; nevertheless the subjects tended to organize their recall in a similar fashion from trial to trial. This clearly contradicts the hypothesis that the subject searches through memory in a random fashion after each reading.”
Atkinson, R. C., and R. M. Shiffrin. Mathematical Models for Memory and Learning. Report no. 79. Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University. 1965. p. 61.
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UC San Diego
“relationships to themselves and to counteract the boredom
of rolling and packing cigars they ordinarily selected one of
the workers who happened to have a particularly attractive
reading voice to read aloud to them while they worked
so they would have read to them cervantes and lope de vega”
Antin, David. “Real Estate.” Tuning. New York: New Directions, 2001. p. 67.
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New Directions Books