Delgado has some great words to share about reading. Unsurprisingly, I'm reminded of Dostoyevsky (The Author), and the reading thereof it inspires. How can one avoid such emersion into reading, as Mike speaks about, when one is reading words such as the following.
"He amasses wealth in solitariness, thinking: how strong I am now and how secure, yet he does not know, the witless one, that the more he amasses, the further he will sink into suicidal impotence. For he has become accustomed to relying upon himself alone and has isolated himself from the whole as an idividual, has trained his sould not to trust in help from others, in human beings and mankind, and is fearful only of losing his money and the privileges he has acquired. In every place today the human mind is mockingly starting to lose its awareness of the fact that a person's true security consists not in his own personal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of human kind."That was taken mid-paragraph on page 349 of Brothers Karamazov. Hundreds of quotes equally sublime, equally insightful, equally poetic, could be found without the slightest hint of difficult searching. Indeed, if you yearn to read as Mike recommends, grab a pen, grab Brothers, and dive head first into genius. Posted by jeremy stock at May 30, 2001 11:06 AM