EZRA POUND ON READING November 3, 2008
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Ezra Pound said of reading, “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” I wonder whether a woman should feel the same way?
READING: WILDER’S RULE November 20, 2006
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When asked whether it was fair to read for pleasure, Thornton Wilder said to give a book eight pages, read eight pages and if the book itself has not captured your imagination and impelled you to go on, throw it across the room. I agree, although I’m a tad more tolerant. I give books ten pages. I have also come to believe that forcing yourself to read words that do not inform you or give you pleasure kills brain cells.
