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tycho
#1 Posted : Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:34:30 PM
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Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?
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kaka2za
#2 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 12:32:45 AM
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tycho wrote:
Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?


Walter Rodney's 'How Europe under developed Africa'
Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
(James Russell Rowell)
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Wamunyota
#3 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:58:59 AM
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tycho wrote:
Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?

Yes.I find it difficult to read and grasp Tycho speak but I am still rubbing my eyes
Hutia Mundu!!
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tycho
#4 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 12:11:43 PM
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kaka2za wrote:
tycho wrote:
Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?


Walter Rodney's 'How Europe under developed Africa'


Agreed. And I'm trying to remember my experience with it, and I'm wondering what is it that makes a book cause such an effect on a person.

I suspect it's about encountering new patterns of thinking. For example, while reading this book I remember a part of me denying Rodney's argument. And now thinking of it I suspect I know why. Accepting the argument would probably leave me feeling extremely vulnerable and helpless.

It was a fight reading it, and I even doubt if I got to finish it...
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Lolest!
#5 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 1:46:25 PM
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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Laughing out loudly smile Applause d'oh! Sad Drool Liar Shame on you Pray
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tycho
#6 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:31:48 PM
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Lolest! wrote:
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina


What drove you to read this book?
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tycho
#7 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:34:13 PM
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Turns out reading is more serious business than I have been imagining. It goes beyond literacy and deep even beyond critical thinking.

Now what's a book about? I can hardly recall. I dread even going into it. To start thinking about it may even disrupt what I'm thinking about now... And what am I thinking about?

A book is a world; a writer a creator. A reader; a worshiper.

Reminds me of one of Gorky's essays on writing. Anyone who is literate believes he/she can be a writer. But really, what makes a writer?

Reading seems to be an invitation into the 'Divine'. I think if one takes pain to read well and many worthy books, then he/she can see 'God'... Literature is a form of theology, and an entry into the spiritual.
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tycho
#8 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:36:00 PM
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Wamunyota wrote:
tycho wrote:
Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?

Yes.I find it difficult to read and grasp Tycho speak but I am still rubbing my eyes


Then you must be reading the right works...
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Wamunyota
#9 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:43:46 PM
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tycho wrote:
Wamunyota wrote:
tycho wrote:
Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?

Yes.I find it difficult to read and grasp Tycho speak but I am still rubbing my eyes


Then you must be reading the right works...

Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly or the wrong ones because i don't understand.
Hutia Mundu!!
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tycho
#10 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:53:11 PM
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Wamunyota wrote:
tycho wrote:
Wamunyota wrote:
tycho wrote:
Have you met a book that seems so difficult to read and perhaps grasp, but noting its importance, you still plod on, rubbing your eyes on every sentence?

Yes.I find it difficult to read and grasp Tycho speak but I am still rubbing my eyes


Then you must be reading the right works...

Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly or the wrong ones because i don't understand.


The right ones because there's a challenge to create new understanding. If you understood, the challenge wouldn't exist.

Low quality literature struggles on worlds already known and understood...
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