Good thing the framers of the website are given a tour Ñ, provided by The Guardian and blogs. Now comment on a post from Evan Maloney about speed reading and its implications. I make my own Christmas present and I have like 10 books on the bedside table to read. And although the temptation is to read one per day, like the TV series, I will enjoy them. Sums Ñ Evan Maloney's post :
read many books this year? How many this month? How many in a day? How many in an hour? In an era where speed is a virtue and efficiency neatly quantified commands: Do we have to learn to read again, to read faster? Some of this was asked yesterday in a blog of British daily The Guardian, Australian writer Evan Maloney. Maloney began his article by quoting an extreme case: the critic Harold Bloom. Bloom said that in its good times, I could read up to 1,000 pages per hour. Thousand pages per hour! "Jane Eyre could be digested during the lunch hour and still had time to chew half of Ulysses before returning to their classes," he laughs Maloney.Pero outside these phenomena, Maloney offers a fact: the average reader progresses through prose at a rate of 250-300 words per minute, which does not usually give even a page in the time that Bloom would be over 16. And the faster the average reader reads, the less you see. Why, asks the author, why rush to read, except to brag of what has been read. The question then is how have read those books, paying much attention. "Most speed reading courses teach people to read the words without forming the mental image of the corresponding sounds," says Maloney.Hay other method of speed reading , says the Australian. Is to identify the keywords of each sentence, a glance, and ignore the others. Maloney said he tried to do, reading Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. Especially in the passages in which one character, Levin, displays his theories. "Part of my mind focused on thoughts and actions Levin says. "But another part is devoted to the process of speed reading. 'What are the words Password? 'I asked. "Sometimes, this question Maloney distracted him completely and felt that I had read several paragraphs without retaining nada.Claro, the problem is the concept of speed reading, reading key words, applied to literature. Do the greatest novelists in the world spent years suffering from the tone and rhythm of each word for a postmodern reader, concerned about stretch your time to go through them diagonally? "I do," Maloney responds. "The reading speed can be an effective tool for working papers, textbooks and letters of unrequited love, but the prose of great literature should be savored ... Right? Part of the pleasure of reading comes from 'listening' our psychic palate pronouncing the words in the ear of the mind. "It's not just, of course, this aesthetic pleasure. Also, if one is not Harold Bloom, is likely to lose much of the meaning of a work if he rushes for finish fast. "Read quickly is like trying to appreciate the view of Paris walking the streets at 200 miles per hour," says Maloney.Sí, Maloney ends this is the era in which we measure the speed of Internet connection in a split second and express feelings in SMS writing things like "tkm" (I love you). "But I am convinced that we should adjust our reading habits at the speed of modern life. In contrast, the reading should be a pleasure when the time is forgotten, even for a moment. "
Via: Moleskine Literary
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