… much better than movies, and why I don’t like TV at all.\n<\/p>\n
\nBut the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, “I should sit here and I should be entertained.” And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know, who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That’s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It’s an old moral, but it’s completely true.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(Zadie Smith quoted at Orange Crate Art<\/a>, found via BoingBoing<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n
\nA book requires attention, and you have as much time as you want, to give it that attention.\n<\/p>\n
\nA movie or a TV programme goes on in its own pace, and all you can do is try to absorb as much as possible. You cannot easily re-read a paragraph or compare two sections side by side. Well, technically you can, but in practice it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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