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How One Should Read a Book






Author William Grass contrasts the way he read in his youth, for speed, with the way he reads now, recursively, going over words and sentences, to linger over sound and meaning.

“In those word-drunk years, I would down a book or two a day as though they were gins; I read for adventure, excitement, to sample the exotic and the strange, for climax and resolution, to participate in otherwise forbidden pleasures. I was, like so many adolescents, as eager to leap from my ordinary life as the salmon is to get upstream. I sought replacement for the world.

With a surreptitious lamp lit, I stayed awake to dream. I grew reckless. I read for speed.

When you read for speed you don’t read recursively, looping along the line like a sewing machine, stitching together, say the panel of a bodice to a sleeve – linking a pair of terms, the contents of a clause; reading recursively in this backward-forward movement of the mind whereby we revise earlier impressions of a text to accommodate new information and, at the same time, speculate about what is to come.”

a. to swallow quickly

b. to test; to try out

c. to stay at or near

d. going back in thought or speech

e. (of actions) done secretly

f. event, point of greatest interest and intensity (e.g. in a story or drama)

g. to consider, form opinions (without having complete knowledge)

h. not thinking or caring about the effects, consequences

i. that which is contained

2. Can you explain the meaning of the phrase “to read recursively”? Read the following passage to learn why reading should be a recursive process.

Reading, like a good conversation, is an ongoing and recursive process: as you accumulate opinions, you constantly revise and modify them when you hear something new, or learn that you did not understand what someone was saying earlier. When you reread, you can find that the text will talk back in some new and interesting ways. It suggests new meanings. So getting involved with a text means rereading it: checking what you have decided on against the words themselves, trying to modify and enrich the meaning you have helped to make. There is no possibility of making meaning until the text takes shape in the imagination as a voice which you have engaged, listened to very carefully, and reengaged. Good reading is an experience of getting involved with a text and wanting to read on, of returning to a text and reconsidering all your conclusions, of letting books talk to you even when you have finished reading them.


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