He spoke of reading books about the Holocaust with tears running down his face.
We used to speak of reading a book as an immersive experience, too, but "immersive" now seems shorthand for "video on a screen".
Garvey calls this process "gleaning," an idea she adopted from the critical theorist Michel de Certeau, who spoke of "reading as poaching" to describe the cutting and recompiling of published texts.
She spoke of reading graphic descriptions of her assault in the news, and how the media listed her rapist's swimming times – as if his athleticism had some bearing on the fact that he had violently assaulted her.
The Scottish philosopher David Hume wrote from London that the work would win the admiration of all the ages; an Italian friend spoke of reading it in an ecstasy of admiration; the Swiss scientist Charles Bonnet said that Montesquieu had discovered the laws of the intellectual world as Newton had those of the physical world.
He spoke of reading Jewish literature in various forms, from Leon Uris, the author of Exodus, and Philip Roth to the Israeli writer David Grossman, and theology and talked of how, as a sixth grader, a camp counselor introduced him to Zionist ideals that he still finds appealing.
(In i.7, Marcus speaks of reading Epictetus'hupomnêmasin'n'; hupomnêmata is the name given them by Arrian, who wrote down Epictetus' teachings, apparently in reference to Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates).
Jack B spoke of reading about relationships developing between donor-conceived people and their donors, and said, 'My dream would be one day to appear in one of those news stories with a happy reunion'.
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@TheSallyGardner spoke of not reading until she was a teen.
