Joshua Foer Quotes
When The Point Of Reading Is, As It Was For Peter Of Ravenna, Remembering, You Approach A Text Very Differently Than Most Of Us Do Today. Now We Put A Premium On Reading Quickly And Widely, And That Breeds A Kind Of Superficiality In Our Reading, And In What We Seek To Get Out Of Books. You Can't Read A Page A Minute, The Rate At Which You're Probably Reading This Book, And Expect To Remember What You've Read For Any Considerable Length Of Time. If Something Is Going To Be Made Memorable, It Has To Be Dwelled Upon, Repeated.
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