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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

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Reading is a circular road going to nowhere but itself. To read is to think the thoughts as the writer thought them or to interpret the writing in a productive way.

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Reading is a kind of symptomatic practice involving the constructing of the problematic and the scientific discovery of the unconsciousness of the text.

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Reading is a form of writing... an activity whereby we either tame a text or we are swallowed up by it, as by a whale.

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Reading is a liberating and transgressive experience, one in which it is possible to step outside and exceed the boundaries of the dominant masculine order.