David L. Ulin comenta desde su perspectiva la dificultad contemporánea de sentarse a leer un buen libro cuando el mundo del Internet nos tenta a tuitear dos minutos más o ver un video de Youtube. Para mucho es problema, aunque como él resalta lo es en un mayor grado cuando te dedicas profesionalmente a leer.
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So what happened? It isn't a failure of desire so much as one of will. Or not will, exactly, but focus: the ability to still my mind long enough to inhabit someone else's world, and to let that someone else inhabit mine. Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves. This is what Conroy was hinting at in his account of adolescence, the way books enlarge us by giving direct access to experiences not our own. In order for this to work, however, we need a certain type of silence, an ability to filter out the noise.
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