For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
Interpretation
Reading should be an enjoyable experience rather than a complex task focused solely on knowledge or puzzles.
Roberto Bolano emphasizes the pleasure derived from reading, suggesting that it should be an enjoyable activity rather than just a means to acquire knowledge or solve intellectual challenges. This perspective highlights the importance of finding joy in literature, viewing reading as an experience that enriches our lives through pleasure rather than solely through its educational value.
In practice
In a book club meeting, to encourage members to enjoy reading for fun rather than just for analysis.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. Thatβs the honest truth. But itβs cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?
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