Most of you reading my blogs will begin to notice that I like lists, lists help me organize my thoughts and make sense of all of them when I finally complete a work. I've always been a visual learner from mapping out my papers to making countless shopping lists to get me through the day, because of this Manguel's comment, "Reading begins with the eyes." immediately jumped out to me.
- "Reading begins with the eyes." At first glance this seems like an obvious statement, but at a closer look it draws a lot of attention. Reading with your eyes, unlike hearing a work of literature helps you better understand the material in front of you.
- Reading with your eyes also better connects to your memory, as mentioned on page 30. Using my eyes, and re reading and re reading in order to memorize has always been very helpful to me.
When using the definition of a book used by Maguel, you can define it as an established artifact in different forms. In example,
- Music- sheet music, notes
- Dance- choreographed routine marks
- Sports- the play book
- People's faces- emotions
- The sky- weather
Reading is always written in the present tense because the story is happening as you read it, this goes back to he argument of whether the writer or he reader is master. Points in this argument could be as follows
- The reader is master because the interpretation lies in their hands
- The writer MAKES you think
- The reader CHOOSES what to think about it
- Reading a stop sign vs. reading and perceiving literature (Al-Haytham, p. 33) You have no choice but to read the stop sign, to sit down and read a book, on the other hand, is optional
- Also your brain, so used to reading, attempts to make sense of random symbols or gibberish (p. 37)
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