I don’t have a proper night stand and I don’t usually read before bedtime.
However, my metaphorical night stand includes “Moby-Dick,” “Don Quixote,” three of Virginia Woolf’s lesser-known novels (“The Voyage Out,” “Night and Day” and “The Years”) and the complete work of Beatrix Potter.
(Books written to be consumed at one sitting or in a day don’t interest me.)
Rather, they read word by word, sentence by sentence, and they ponder over an unfamiliar word choice, a fleeting gesture, the shadow of an image, and the ripple of a sentence seen in the following sentence.
It’s a testament to the art of reading with not only five senses but also with memory and imagination.
Persons:
Moby, Dick, ” “ Don Quixote, ”, Virginia, Beatrix Potter, Hilary, It’s, Michael K, ” Edward P, Jones’s, ” William Trevor’s “, Fortune ”, Naipaul’s, Edmund White, Elizabeth Bowen’s “, Edmund, we’ve, Marilynne
Organizations:
Skype, Princeton
Locations:
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