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On reading

On reading

作者: 李絮 | 来源:发表于2021-10-02 15:54 被阅读0次

        The previous question is: What exactly do we read when we talk about reading. Books?Papers printed with words? If so, how about advertisements in the newspaper and how about e-books? It’s easy to reason that the THING distinguishing reading from other behaviors are those human thoughts represented by words—to be more accurate,some people (who tend to be wise ones) record and present their thoughts in some certain genre—fiction, prose, biography, poetry, etc.—and by means of language.A point needs to be concerned: the records cannot utterly equal to their thoughts due to the inevitability of having some missed more or less in the transmission process. Moreover, the real wise-thinkers aren’t the people creating something but the ones NOTICING things, who are good at observing or have spent so much time observing as to find something out or find a new way to explain something found.A Dream in Red Mansion; mansions of books on it.

And here comes the second question: Why one should read. Reading serves for delight,for ornament, and for ability; for me, reading serves for power, for power, and for power.

Reading perfects our analyzing and filtering system which is our shield. A shield erected between the out and the in; a shield against the intrusion of assorted opinions;a shield sustaining the stability of the inner world. Reading whets our weaponry. When we are in a war of argument, something absorbed from books is powerful on the battlefield: logic is barrier; rhetorical device cannon;flowery language anesthetic bomb. For instance, The Archeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault has been wielded over many a field to attest or attack. After all, savior est pouvoir. Attention, that is exactly what I am doing now: use my language and some skills to convince you; in other words, congratulations, you are reading and after this article, your weapons will be empowered. Reading guards for the inner dynamic harmony: diverse viewpoints smooth the button of irritation; experiencing characters’ fates in novels presses on the “empathy faculty”; books on explaining principles and rules ease the pain brought by the uncertainty (personally, a large part of pain originates from ignorance); everything changes and evolves in a calm and reasonable way.

Apart from that, some added bonuses may come to those good readers: temperament of books, self-confidence, outside praises, abundant resources of topics, convenience in social relationship, or even authority.

Bingo!Welcome to the last question: How should one read a book? Obviously, reading needs to be trained and the skills depend on not only the purposes of reading,but the classes the books belong to.

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