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thaleia at 10:07pm on 28/03/2010
thaleia at 10:07pm on 28/03/2010I'm reading novels again, books again, after a long time of reading nothing more than snippets of text off the internet, where an 8 page article is a very long one. I am enjoying the switch.
It's not so much that the content is different, necessarily. Although Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking..... it was amazing and unlike anything else I've ever read in its power and poignancy. It's that focusing on longer works teaches me, it trains me to learn how to hold my breath and dive deeper into a world of semantics and connotation and feeling.
When I read a longer work, I focus. I dive into it, and it affects my brain, my perception of time differently. It slows down the noise of my surroundings. The noise of the train, the traffic, and commuters. I enter a light trace-like state, where I absorb and process thoughts more easily. Additionally, my brain copies, a little bit, the content that I put into it.
When I think of the impact I want to have on the world, it's not to have more followers, or to support my family off of the ad revenue. What I want is to give people a moment so beautiful and big and complex that it swallows them up. I want them to remember later how it made them feel to read the words that I put into form for them.
It's not so much that the content is different, necessarily. Although Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking..... it was amazing and unlike anything else I've ever read in its power and poignancy. It's that focusing on longer works teaches me, it trains me to learn how to hold my breath and dive deeper into a world of semantics and connotation and feeling.
When I read a longer work, I focus. I dive into it, and it affects my brain, my perception of time differently. It slows down the noise of my surroundings. The noise of the train, the traffic, and commuters. I enter a light trace-like state, where I absorb and process thoughts more easily. Additionally, my brain copies, a little bit, the content that I put into it.
When I think of the impact I want to have on the world, it's not to have more followers, or to support my family off of the ad revenue. What I want is to give people a moment so beautiful and big and complex that it swallows them up. I want them to remember later how it made them feel to read the words that I put into form for them.