Do People Still Read Books?
I don’t rlly like reading unless I fr dig the book like Percy Jackson, that thing was fire
I have experienced it many times. That’s why I can’t really say “I have read this book” it’s a very living thing. It grows with us.
Even something like an Aesop’s fables can do this to you 😂😅
Okay, you asked for it. This is a fair sample of my reading material from the late 1960s through the 1970s. After that it was mostly technical manuals. A lot of technical manuals. No, more than a lot.
I have to give a shout out to Lovecraft, whose book I couldn't find. I've got rid of so many books and have some packed that I don't know what I have any more. Not a lot, really. These are the ones I keep out. Yeah, several of these books are from the '60s and '70s. I bought Dracula in 1968. Now I'm mostly into history of all kinds.
Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.
Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.
At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet