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July 16, 2008

Wendell Berry interview in the Sun magazine: Real reading, of course, is a kind of work. But it’s lovely work. To read well, you have to respond actively to what the writer’s saying. You can’t just lie there on the couch and let it pour over you. You may have to read with a pencil in hand and underline passages and write notes in the margins. The poet John Milton understood that the best readers are rare. He prayed to his muse that he might a “fit audience find, though few.”

It’s a pretty wide ranging interview, but I liked this quote a lot.

I’m lost in my head today, in things that aren’t happening and trying to figure how to get from a general sense of here (where I feel so much on hold) to there (where i think I might be in community or in connection more with myself and the world.)

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