Feb 22, 2008

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"This is all a matter of reading, “for example, one could—critically—think in a certain measure, as a critic could measure a text, say, feel the right to disengage oneself from the act of reading (the reading of places and things in particular) without leaving what the act of reading leaves one with in general to feel as such. So it goes: either one is forced to read in a clear and particular way, or one leaves it to be tortured about—as if given—into a critical, more generalized feel and force on things, that is why—because how to read is a question of force, who applies it and how—I have never simply lost my place there, having never found it—so I went.” (Hollander, How To Read, Too, P. 9)"

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