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Wen / Feng Jicai
The way of reading varies from book to book, and I divide reading into two types: horizontal reading and vertical reading. The so-called horizontal reading, that is, while looking at the side of the turn, just turn all the way down, the eyes sweep along the trend, the string of skin does not enter, read it casually thrown aside; the so-called vertical reading, is that each page is not easy to let go, sometimes to read a deep and beautiful text again, sometimes will fall between the lines, let the thinking or emotion entangled in it, and even fall deeper and deeper!
Vertical reading takes at least five times longer than horizontal reading.
Reading newspapers is often read horizontally, which is also the nature of the media. The media never wants to have a deep friendship with you, just stimulate it. What about reading? Reading is not all vertical reading, there is also a kind of book that belongs to horizontal reading, such as martial arts novels, the more "classic" martial arts novels, the faster it looks, and the speed at which the eyes sweep above is as fast as the wind. This is not surprising. It originally belonged to the nature of mass culture. On the contrary, it is pure culture and must be read vertically. For example, "Remembrance of the Lost Water Years", and then "Six Memories of Floating Life", you can get up fast - can you get up?
A book read vertically has its own personality. It is not suitable for reading on a trip; it is best to read at night, alone, with no one sitting around, even if it sits silently. If you have a problem in your heart, don't touch this kind of book. It can never catch up with the things that churn in your heart. Only when you have peace in your heart, when you have prepared a large mental space for it, can the "vertical reading" begin.
Dolphin Publishing House produced a special edition of "Vertical Reading" for Mr. Feng
For example, the collection of essays written by a Frenchman I have now, "The First Beer", is a book that must be "read vertically". Each article in this book is only a thousand words, and all the things written are the most subtle feelings of life. These feelings are irrational, bland, and even some very slight feelings. It's so small that we'll never remember it. Let's say how you feel about writing. Another example is drinking a beer, playing with a small folding knife, peeling green beans, walking at night on the highway, and putting on a cardigan in the autumn when you feel or feel. But he didn't put an unforgettable past or an unforgettable character in the middle, he just unfolded the details of these feelings that everyone had. For example, when you grasp the peel of an apple with a small folding knife, your fingers are often clutched on the blade; for example, when a shiny bean is squeezed out of the pod, the last one is always very small and weak... It calls you "see life and yourself again." This "re-", through the help of the writer's sensibility, discovery and aesthetic power, makes us "re-" feel that life is everywhere so beautiful and charming. As I read it, I really felt the feelings of the writer when he described the night of driving in detail: "I hope that the dawn of the dawn will come later", so as to immerse myself in the beauty of this life in the book for a long time. At this moment, is our mind "reshaped" by him?
Both vertical and horizontal reading are a requirement. What is needed for horizontal reading is to understand, to know roughly; plus some pleasure and excitement. What is needed for vertical reading is telepathy and revelation, the elevation of the realm, and the radiance of beauty. It is a pity that there is no such book in our prose world. Some people say that because our writers and readers are too impetuous to write and read. I say, there is reason; but there is still a lack of a vital thing, that is, a sensitivity to beauty and the necessary temperament.
Read vertically
Author: Feng Jicai
Publisher: Dolphin Press
Publication year: 2017-9
Number of pages: 328
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9787511038944
The title of "Vertical Reading" comes from Mr. Feng Jicai's "horizontal reading and vertical reading theory" on reading, he believes that "horizontal reading" is close to browsing, while "vertical reading" is not only intensive reading, but also needs to invest in emotions and thoughts, "vertical reading" needs to be telepathic and enlightened, the realm of improvement, and the beauty of the glow. The book "Vertical Reading" is like the reading method of "Vertical Reading", with profound thoughts and sensitive experiences of beauty.