tears and tears for books
Jan. 20th, 2006 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vriad_leethere are books and there are books. there are people who read a good fat book in 3 hours, and claim to remember all the facts/details. and that sounds awful, and you don't envy them. no, you don't. it happens that you need to invest something to get a return. sometimes making an effort is such fun that you're tricked into believing there was no investment at all. but that doesn't change much.
one of my favorite books is the picture of dorian gray. i started to read it when i didn't know english - no more than some very basic grammar. it was spring time, i went to dacha and spent days watching radish sprouts and reading dorian gray. and first it took me a whole day to make a page or two. then i went to moscow, to my sister, and asked her all kinds of questions about the few pages that i'd read, some of them (questions) very silly.
reading at such a deep level, trying to grasp every word, doubting every expression, i эgrew' into the book at some point. it was as if i had been allowed into some secret/hidden dimension of it. i might have been reading a lot into this book, and i probably have, but it doesn't make it any worse. it makes it much better.
one of my favorite books is the picture of dorian gray. i started to read it when i didn't know english - no more than some very basic grammar. it was spring time, i went to dacha and spent days watching radish sprouts and reading dorian gray. and first it took me a whole day to make a page or two. then i went to moscow, to my sister, and asked her all kinds of questions about the few pages that i'd read, some of them (questions) very silly.
reading at such a deep level, trying to grasp every word, doubting every expression, i эgrew' into the book at some point. it was as if i had been allowed into some secret/hidden dimension of it. i might have been reading a lot into this book, and i probably have, but it doesn't make it any worse. it makes it much better.
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Date: 2006-01-20 11:40 am (UTC)А вот Честертона читать в оригинале у меня до сих пор не выходит. Там столько Епитетов, что у меня от странички в ень действительно голова пухнет.
ЗЫ. я до сих пор думаю, что нипанимаю па англицки. Может, передумать...
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Date: 2006-01-20 11:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-20 02:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-04 08:23 pm (UTC)PS. i just realized again how beautiful this book is. how amazingly clever and beautiful. i'm so tired of books filled with water