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The Slow Reading Movement

by Bud Parr

One movement I was a member of before I knew it! The Slow Reading Movement. See Lindsay Waters’ article in The Chronicle for Higher Education. There’s more to the piece than this, but I particularly liked this:



“The role of literature is to mess with time, to establish its own time, its own rhythm. A new agenda for literary studies should open up the time of reading, just as it opens up how the writer establishes his or her rhythm. Instead of rushing by works so fast that we don’t even muss up our hair, we should tarry, attend to the sensuousness of reading, allow ourselves to enter the experience of words.”

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