NP. ...Loving Literature: A Cultural History, Lynch

[Jemmy Bloocher]

Oh this looks interesting. The blurb gave me pause for thought in relation
to how I view my own life and parse my own expereinces through the mirror
of literature. It's almost a chicken and egg thing isn't it. What comes
first, one's love for words/literature and therefore how one views
oneself/one's life, or does our experience shape what we love and how we
love it.
For me, one of my earliest and happiest memories is of discovering my
ablity to read, the realisation that I could actually do it; I didn't have
to wait for my mother or father to read to me. I was then quite voracious
in my appetites. I hazard a guess that my very early (comparatively) love
for (for example) Russian literature was borne of my personality,
nevertheless I think the discovery of these words also changed my very
nature. That was a tad 'stream of consciousness'. Apologies.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 1:26 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just ordered this book. Maybe of interest to other Plisters?
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> (Jemmy, thinking of your recent "adhesive literature" post, so to speak.
> Can't happen without feelings around a book, I would say, agree?)
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> > Date: December 19, 2018 at 6:45:28 AM EST
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> > Subject: Loving Literature: A Cultural History, Lynch
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> > https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo19085293.html
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