Flights of Mind

Shakespeare & Company, Paris

"Some books and magazines I skimmed as though I were flying over a landscape, and as I did I was aware of already knowing what was written in them.  As though a single word could summon back a thousand others, or could blossom into a full bodied summary, like those Japanese flowers that open in water.  As though something were striking out on its own to settle in my memory, to keep Oedipus and Don Quixote company.  At times the short circuit was caused by a drawing, three thousand words for one picture.  At times I would read slowly, savoring a phrase, a passage, a chapter, experiencing perhaps the same emotions sparked by my first, forgotten reading.
       It is pointless to speak of the gamut of mysterious flames, mild tachycardias, and sudden flushes that many of those readings gave rise to for a brief instant, which dissolved as quickly as they had come, making way for new waves of heat..."  -Umberto Eco, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana


Wonderful article: Your brain on fiction

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