What an interesting concept - fiction for what ails you. If it works for you, than that’s the only proof you need. I’m just reflecting on the fact that I read almost no fiction, unless in a book group. Yet, books have always been my therapist, my guides and teachers. They have literally saved my life.
O man! What a banger!! I really felt this one, the whole way through, in my chest and gut.
I’ve always had an inkling that reading is my religion. What an awe-some concept:
In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks. Reading fiction makes me lose all sense of self, but at the same time makes me feel most uniquely myself. As Woolf, the most fervent of readers, wrote, a book “splits us into two parts as we read,” for “the state of reading consists in the complete elimination of the ego,” while promising “perpetual union” with another mind.
What an interesting concept - fiction for what ails you. If it works for you, than that’s the only proof you need. I’m just reflecting on the fact that I read almost no fiction, unless in a book group. Yet, books have always been my therapist, my guides and teachers. They have literally saved my life.
Yes!!
Today for me was pretty brutal until around 3pm when I decided to reread a bunch of my favs. This one (still) really rocks.
O man! What a banger!! I really felt this one, the whole way through, in my chest and gut.
I’ve always had an inkling that reading is my religion. What an awe-some concept: