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.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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