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is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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.

For Derrida reading is either to think the thoughts as the writer thought them or to interpret the writing in a productive wayboth are deep reading practices. (random book reviewer on net). . . . for Derrida reading is a circular road going to nowhere but itself.

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

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

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

is a distasteful activity which musses up the mind.

reading is a distasteful activity which musses up the mind. I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind. Henry Ford

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

For Cixous, writing only truly comes to life when a dialogue or interchange is established with the act of reading. As she explains in Three Steps: 'Writing and reading are not seperate, reading is a part of writing. A real reader is a writer. A real reader is already on the way to writing' (p21). Reading is a a vital part of the 'genesis' or 'pre-birth' of her writing. Cixous's readings of texts, the approaches she takes when she speaks and writes about the writing of others, can thus be seen as another piece in the jigsaw of ecriture feminine. It is the 'femininity' of writing them, that the revolution-in-language which Cixous calls for in 'Sorties' can and will take place. Cixous sees reading as a liberating and transgressive experience, one in which it is possible to step outside and exceed the boundaries of the dominant 'mascline' order: 'Reasly'' ( Three Steps, pp. 21 2). Reading is also a complex and delicate balancing act, requiring much care, skill and thought on the part of tbe reader. As Cixous comments at the commencement of the transcripts from her seminar al the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Feminines collected in Reading with Clarice Lispector, there are a wide variety of ways in which the strangeness or otherness of a text can be listened to and explored. Cixous's d escription of these different possible approaches to a text can be tentatively put forward as the outline of a 'feminine' practice of reading: When we read a text, wee are either read by the text or we are in the text. Either we tam a text, we ride on it, we roll over it, or we are Swallowed up by it, as by a whale. There are thousands of possible relations to a text, and if we are in a nondefensive, nonresisting relationship, we are carried off by the text. This is mainly the way it goes. But then, in order to read, we need to get out of the text. We have to shuttle back and forth incessantly. Vve have to try all possible relations with a text. At some point, wee have to disengage ourselves from the text as a living ensemble, in order to study its construction, its techniques, and its texture. (p. 3)

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

Only a symptomatic reading (lecture symptomale), constructing the problematic, the unconsciousness of the text, is a reading of Marx's work that will allow us to establish the epistemological break that makes possible historical materialism as a science.'

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

Cixous sees reading as a liberating and transgressive experience, one in which it is possible to step outside and exceed the boundaries of the dominant 'masculine' order:

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