On Reading............
Its something that everyone when young needs to embrace for the young lack Life's experience and any good book can become a source of both knowledge & inspiration tho to the young reader thereof they lack the experience and when all is said & done - and make no mistake, sooner or later we are all Done! - in Life, then, its the Experience.......... not "A Read".
Should 1 then become a porcupine, having quills with which to take some poison upon ones quills and stab it upon a page of paper - or well in this modern era I suppose it would be more incumbent to be called a "website" - perhaps becoming even the dining room of a spider? porcupines & spiders? Haha
As far as "my book" - haha- well let me refrain from any kind of political commentary- for my topic here in this post is simply on "Reading"...... I cannot honestly confess that any1 who has read any of my writings of substance has not been to some degree profoundly wounded and also many who grasp the meaning of the words have not been also profoundly delighted at least to some extent. In other cases, I'm sure that most persons have difficulty with the metaphorical and sometimes deeply aphoristic form of my writing. Today, in this modern era, people simply do not appreciate such a style and in fact it is certainly not taken seriously if it is generally even understood as a method by the Masses.........enough!
An aphorism, properly molded & sealed has on the surface not been "decoded" or understood as nourishment for the soul at all but rather one must become like a cow, I'm afraid to say, relaxing in a shady spot on a hill perhaps enjoying a pleasant breeze and "ruminate"............
But back to my "thought": Another area of prudence perhaps even of self defense when "reading" is to react to the author as little as possible. Of course I'm referring to the "Student" - For any pupil does a great disservice and pays no compliment at all to The Teacher should The Student forever remain a pupil......... but this is generally the desire for most authors regarding "their readers".
I can only think of sooo many promising young intelligent students who completely lose their ability to Think for themselves- if they don't "read" they don't think! They respond only to the words of some author or speaker - it's simply a reaction. Scholars who simply agree or disagree with some written stimulus of some one else's thoughts - they themselves have completely lost their own ability to think for themselves - if they ever had the ability to begin with!
Their "thoughts" are simply "sparks" like a match struck on a brick wall and many have simply become "read to death" by the time they are 30 or before - and they don't even know they are dead having never even lived! Never discovered their OWN! Thoughts and become themselves; living their own lives - no they are only followers.
Early in the morning, then, I think; when the dawn greets one and all is fresh, strong and embracing a new day, hmmm - to read a book at such a time is simply depraved!
INTJohn
