How Not to Read!

[Rexenm]

But aside from that, do you ever get the feeling you are being watched? I was an avid reader, but the first section of a book never made sense to me. It felt like Jesus was there, watching me, like he could do anything. Although, I have read books at school, and we all had a copy. Does that strike you, better? How not to read, is obvious, but why should someone ever forget their child, their home?

I was thinking this to myself, when reading this book, for a little research, and I got lost in confusion. Why doesn’t there seem to be any other way to forget yourself other than imagine?

So I thought of this little game. When you read, look at each word as if it is a complete sentence. Try not to imagine the words in your mind, read the description as if it is verbatim. Do not to form the words in your mouth, instead carefully comprehend them.

 

[Rexenm]

It is like the difference between good and evil. When I sit down to read, or lie down, I get the sense of pervading evil, then I sink into the text, and the world becomes vivid in my mind, as if I am skimming stones across water, not comprehending at all, just being, like in a trance.

 

[Rexenm]

There is the argument that love surpasses all, but I’d suggest that it was in fact good. Indeed, there is the argument of the hero and his story, but why does the enemy have so many powers? It seems that there is a crack in our hero, and we feed it all the best advice that we can, but it is still a crack. This is like story structure. If there didn’t exist a crack, then there would be no story. I think of it like the hero, the wizard and the blacksmith. The alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. The wizard can teach, but the blacksmith makes the sword, so who is evil? Fate is destiny, but blood is forever.

 

[BJ Swabb]

It is like the difference between good and evil. When I sit down to read, or lie down, I get the sense of pervading evil, then I sink into the text, and the world becomes vivid in my mind, as if I am skimming stones across water, not comprehending at all, just being, like in a trance.

I do this all the time. I even do this when I write my novels. I often have a movie pretty much playing in my head the whole entire time that I either read or write my book series. It takes me out of this world completely and into a world I wish I really lived in. I experience everything with the protagonists of the novels as if I was traveling right beside them. It helps when I have music playing as well that kind of goes with the over all world that I am imagining as I write or read. It helps a lot as well.

 

[Rexenm]

If you read, you can write. Whether it is right or not, depends on how good it is. People get good and nice confused, as well as evil and bad. I think that the totalitarian view is better than the socialist one. If one were to get confused about this, it is whether one can accept something or not. It is like why religion is separated from the state. Indeed, any separation has to do with whether one can read or not.

 

[Rexenm]

It was once told to me that the greatest story ever told was a woman trying to get a missive to her assassin, or was it a woman trying to find her beast? I ask this, because what is a story without religion? It seems the never ending cycle is the search for a soul, it has us on the balls of our feet, but I answer in this way: the romance of fiction is escaping this fact, and learning to seek knowledge, not power. If ever there were a rebuttal to this, it would be that books are not meant to be read, they are meant to be understood.

 

[Rexenm]

I go on about this, but it really is about skipping stones. The lake is cold, you skip stones. You don’t fish, you are a hermit. But there is the mermaid, and the sword, and all those fine things under the water. Maybe the real test is to hold your breath for as long as you can, more slowly rising to the surface, rather than jetting.