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Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

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Listening to someone read aloud is very different from reading in silence. When you read, you can stop or skip sentences: you are the one who sets the...more

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. …Tell th...more

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...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

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Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make co...more

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Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great task. Weighing them in his hand, thick, closely pr...more

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Reading is solitude.

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What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You can leave the...more

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Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open...more

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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every ex...more

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I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and you know nothing else about him, just a...more

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Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ......more

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Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and thr...more

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Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

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Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.