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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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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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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/3/2008 Posts: 4,057 Location: Gwitu
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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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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/23/2014 Posts: 1,652
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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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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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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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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/18/2011 Posts: 12,069 Location: Kianjokoma
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Lolest! wrote:Tolstoy's Anna Karenina What drove you to read this book?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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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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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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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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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/23/2014 Posts: 1,652
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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...  or the wrong ones because i don't understand. Hutia Mundu!!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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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... 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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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/23/2014 Posts: 1,652
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tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? Hutia Mundu!!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/23/2014 Posts: 1,652
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tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? Hutia Mundu!!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? When I experience pleasure and calm. When orgasm is achieved.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/23/2014 Posts: 1,652
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tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? When I experience pleasure and calm. When orgasm is achieved. How often do you experience orgasm? Hutia Mundu!!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? When I experience pleasure and calm. When orgasm is achieved. How often do you experience orgasm? Now and then but I suspect not often enough. Though there's a thought; what if life is meant to be that way? For example, is this a challenge to enlightenment?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/3/2008 Posts: 4,057 Location: Gwitu
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tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? When I experience pleasure and calm. When orgasm is achieved. How often do you experience orgasm? Now and then but I suspect not often enough. Though there's a thought; what if life is meant to be that way? For example, is this a challenge to enlightenment? I used to get a funny sensation whenever I went through books at Book point. That place was a shrine. Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
(James Russell Rowell)
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/23/2009 Posts: 526
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kaka2za wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? When I experience pleasure and calm. When orgasm is achieved. How often do you experience orgasm? Now and then but I suspect not often enough. Though there's a thought; what if life is meant to be that way? For example, is this a challenge to enlightenment? I used to get a funny sensation whenever I went through books at Book point. That place was a shrine. I thought I was alone. The smell ......I mean. Accept no one's definition of your life; define your life.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/23/2014 Posts: 1,652
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tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote:Wamunyota wrote:tycho wrote: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... 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... How do you know that you have understood and the current understanding needs new understanding? When there's an existential crisis or problem to be resolved. How do you know the problem has been resolved? When I experience pleasure and calm. When orgasm is achieved. How often do you experience orgasm? Now and then but I suspect not often enough. Though there's a thought; what if life is meant to be that way? For example, is this a challenge to enlightenment? How do you know you have enough orgasm?What is the optimal number of orgasms per session? Hutia Mundu!!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Even before bookpoint's closure I found the 'prestige book shop' much better. But no book shop can up the street vendors if you know how to hunt for books.
And now thanks to the internet things are far much better. Examples: In one book shop I saw Freud's 'civillization and its discontents' costing 1000 sh. on the internet you get it for free... And when you have a question if you go through the search results you won't fail to find at least a book about it that you can download for free. And you can also buy some books that are difficult to find or are latest in the market.
The shrine is now in your head.
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