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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).
On reading
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Re: On reading
STFU Hippy.
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Re: On reading
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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.
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Re: On reading
You are a buffoon.
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So do many others, which explains why they buy Timmah's books.nafod wrote:Sadly, I often read in order to go to sleep.Hebrew Hammer wrote:incapable of sleep or of continuous thought
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Re: On reading
Yes, on sale at fine book stores everywhere. Try:The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:Yes, on sale at fine bookstores everywhere....nafod wrote:Sadly, I often read in order to go to sleep.Hebrew Hammer wrote:incapable of sleep or of continuous thought
So do many others, which explains why they buy Timmah's books.
The Literary Insomniac
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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,
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The mind boggles at Chekhov and Cahill in the same sentence.
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Search results 1 - 10 of about 2,000 for book toilet paper tim cahill
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