Text: Flipping through the books in his spare time
Crowds huddle together because they are polygonal animals, but people read because they know they are lonely individuals. Reading is not a substitute for anything else for people, but nothing can replace reading. It cannot provide a clear explanation for man's fate, but it can weave a web between him and his life.
- Daniel Penac, "Like a Novel"
The interesting thing about reading this is that every time a word is silently read in the mind, it seems to be an echo between the self and the heart.
It is not clear whether we are silently thinking about the author's carefully woven language, or whether the words and phrases are slowly flowing out of the heart.
I used to think that there would be the most profound truth in the operation of all things in books, but now I finally realized that the purpose of this kind of reading is only a fantasy.
Even if there are really high-ranking people in this world who have understood the heavenly opportunity, then even if he can write down his most reasonable truth, how many people can read and understand them?
We can't find another person in the text, but what we can do is to find the truth that we can resonate in our hearts.
In other words, what I originally agreed with was not firm and resolute enough, so I tried to find an approximate or even identical voice in the book.
This voice is no less than that of an oracle, but if you listen and think carefully, you will feel: I originally made such a plan, but at that time, my thinking was not clearly formed.
It is probably for this reason that people enter books when they are lonely.
A person is lonely, but if it is a person who adds the sound of silently reading the words of a book, it is as if "books provide him with refuge."
On this level, words do not sow hope or anything else, hope that this kind of thing cannot be given by others. Words and books provide comfort.
It is the closest shelter to the inner need.
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There is warmth in the text;
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