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I have remembered two things that help immensely with speed reading:
1) It helps to have a bookmark under the line you are reading to keep your eyes tracking.
2) It's based in part on knowing small, common words and being able to skip them, and on having a very large vocabulary. Donc, il faut l'apprenne dans chaque langue qu'on connaisse.
I would have paid good money for someone to convince Giono that it really isn't necessary to devote almost forty pages to astronomy lessons based on measurements that can be comprehended by the average human brain so that we feel as though our entire person is just so much stardust. Neither is there really a need to go on about Mozart and Bach and how they both had only the "seven basic notes" and with them created entire universes of music that were both similar and completely different. Or how painters can't paint with ultraviolet or infrared, they can no more make use of these colors than musicians can make use of sounds inaudible to human ears, but painters too create immense similar yet innately different universes of art. Yes, the universe and the realms of creation are outside the possibility of human comprehension. Yes, it's fascinating. Yes, you write really prettily. But you've been writing in circles for sixty fucking pages and you make my head hurt because you keep repeating words and phrases and writing your beautiful prose like poetry except that the repetitions just get confusing and painful because one wonders if one missed a fundamental point, or else one feels like a lectured child told over and over again that it's so stupid it can't possibly comprehend how brilliant it is.
Yes. That's precisely how I feel.
Also realizing that I kinda went to college to major in lesbianism. Academics are kinda secondary to the lifeplan, shit.
1) It helps to have a bookmark under the line you are reading to keep your eyes tracking.
2) It's based in part on knowing small, common words and being able to skip them, and on having a very large vocabulary. Donc, il faut l'apprenne dans chaque langue qu'on connaisse.
I would have paid good money for someone to convince Giono that it really isn't necessary to devote almost forty pages to astronomy lessons based on measurements that can be comprehended by the average human brain so that we feel as though our entire person is just so much stardust. Neither is there really a need to go on about Mozart and Bach and how they both had only the "seven basic notes" and with them created entire universes of music that were both similar and completely different. Or how painters can't paint with ultraviolet or infrared, they can no more make use of these colors than musicians can make use of sounds inaudible to human ears, but painters too create immense similar yet innately different universes of art. Yes, the universe and the realms of creation are outside the possibility of human comprehension. Yes, it's fascinating. Yes, you write really prettily. But you've been writing in circles for sixty fucking pages and you make my head hurt because you keep repeating words and phrases and writing your beautiful prose like poetry except that the repetitions just get confusing and painful because one wonders if one missed a fundamental point, or else one feels like a lectured child told over and over again that it's so stupid it can't possibly comprehend how brilliant it is.
Yes. That's precisely how I feel.
Also realizing that I kinda went to college to major in lesbianism. Academics are kinda secondary to the lifeplan, shit.
