As usual, I’ll sabotage this question and turn it around a bit to reflect what I thought I knew about reading and to examine some of Smith’s ideas that I found most interesting. As has been my recent mode, while reading Smith I found myself thinking, “Geesh, I knew that, but I guess I never [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 6, 2007
The Ring of the Text
What is a text and where is it located?
“The reading of any work of literature is, of necessity, an individual and unique occurrence involving the mind and emotions of a particular reader.”
For at least 20 years or so, I have waited to read such an assertion, having always believed that standardized tests of reading [...]
March 6, 2007
Letter to Achilles
Letter to Achilles
Hold fast,
breathe deeply,
tend to your armor, o warrior.
Your heart and I
will likely pummel you with waves of emotions,
soak you in stormy moods,
chill you with ice storms of thoughtless words,
and no doubt already have.
