Comments on: Reading Deprivation

By: john

john — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:44:10 +0000

When I was a kid and making nasty faces for recreation, my grandmonther would always warn me that my face would stay that way. Now what would happen if you stop reading and your mind stays that way? Consider the people that don’t read. Look at this man, this so called president. He doesn’t read, probably can’t read. What a marvel his mind is. He can use ‘strategery’ in a sentence. He’s the edumacation president. But is this what you want?

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:36:47 +0000

Any Update? Will you make it through Turkey Day? Come on…‘fess up, bet you snuck in a paragraph or two somewhere, somehow. Not even a newspaper, online perhaps?

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:14:47 +0000

I just reread this more carefully… Bill Clinton makeout soundtrack? I salute you.

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:01:29 +0000

The staring can be good, you know. I don’t think you’ll get shot, but if you want to play it safe and only stare at the ones who won’t notice you, just pick the ones who are READING.

By: angelissima

angelissima — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:27:13 +0000

you could try meditation. it quiets my restless mind…to the point of pudding, really.

By: Ranger Tim

Ranger Tim — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:38:56 +0000

There are eight million stories in the naked city, and most of them aren’t typeset.

Here’s to a National Non-Reading Week, when all at once we’re forced to look up and around at each other and an unintermediated flesh-and-blood world.

Keep up the project.

- T

By: Bill_W

Bill_W — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:10:49 +0000

D-,
How can you do that in NYC without becoming blind?
I even watch TV with the captions on just to read stuff.
Oh well, You’re not gonna read this any way.

By: Elly

Elly — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:48:31 +0000

Dervala – Why?

It’s like denying yourself food and drink …utterly pointless.

I did a mini experiment on the way to work today trying to replicate your experience. I banned my book and as a result spent the entire bus & tube journey grasping at words near me – sports page in the paper being read by the man on the bus, ads for flu treatments on the tube, the back of my ticket……. I am sure it is bad for the soul.

Repent now!

By: William

William — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 05:44:24 +0000

Go on Dervala,

forgo any text for a week
and after the week is out, indulge yourself, it’ll be the best text you’ll ever have.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:50:14 +0000

Banned in Brooklyn???

Dervala without novel, text or reference is like…

Vivaldi without Spring, Summer or Fall

Ireland without Stout, Shamrocks or Saints

Dubyah without Smirk, Soldiers or Stupidity

Shakespeare without Hamlet, Lear or MacBeth

The sky without Sun, Moon or Stars!