Read to Kill

(Entry in Lithuanian)

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts. (Cory Doktorow, Eastern Standart Tribe)

For several years I was engaged in vivisecting and dissecting of the texts. Simple and non-committing, pleasant – “normal” for a lack of a better word – reading became a huge challenge. I no longer know how to „simply“ read – when I have a book in my hands, the Critical Approaches mode turns on automatically, and so I try to remember how to read like before.

It ain‘t going all that well…

Read to Kill

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts. (Cory Doktorow, Eastern Standart Tribe)

Keletą metų užsiiminėjau tekstų vivisekcija ir skrodimais. Paprastas, neį(si)pareigojantis, malonus – “normalus” galų gale – skaitymas tapo didžiuliu iššūkiu. Nebemoku tiesiog skaityti – rankose atsidūrus knygai, automatiškai įsijungia critical approaches režimas; taigi bandau prisiminti, kaip skaitydavau anksčiau.

Negaliu pasakyti, kad man labai sekasi…