On reading

Hebrew Hammer · Post by **Hebrew Hammer** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:37 pm

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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).

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:39 pm

STFU Hippy.

Hebrew Hammer · Post by **Hebrew Hammer** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:34 pm

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.

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:42 pm

You are a buffoon.

nafod · Post by **nafod** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:40 am

Hebrew Hammer wrote:incapable of sleep or of continuous thought

Sadly, I often read in order to go to sleep.

Turdacious · Post by **Turdacious** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:17 pm

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.

seeahill · Post by **seeahill** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:54 pm

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

http://www.amazon.com/Literary-Insomnia ... 503&sr=8-2

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,

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:07 pm

The mind boggles at Chekhov and Cahill in the same sentence.

seeahill · Post by **seeahill** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:38 pm

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.

Turdacious · Post by **Turdacious** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:58 pm

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seeahill · Post by **seeahill** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:11 pm

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:
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