Performancing Metrics

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❝ In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ❞
Ralph Waldo Emerson


❝ The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. ❞
André Maurois


❝ Desde muy pequeño asumí con los dientes apretados esa condición que me dividía de mis amigos y a la vez atraía hacia el raro, el diferente, el que metía el dedo en el ventilador. No estaba privado de felicidad: la única condición era coincidir de a ratos (…) con otro que tampoco calzara de lleno en su matrícula, y desde luego no era fácil; pero pronto descubrí los gatos, en lo que podía imaginar mi propia condición, y los libros donde la encontraba de lleno ❞
Julio Cortázar - La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos, Tomo I.
❝ My reading schedule is not at all a regular and placid ingestion of books. Either a book bores me and I put it aside, or it excites me and I constantly want to stop reading it so that I can think about what I’ve just read - which is also reflected in the way I read for my work: I’m unable, unwilling, to sum up a book, to efface myself behind a capsule description of it on an index card, but on the contrary, I’m quite ready to pick out certain sentences, certain characteristics of the book, to ingest them as discontinuous fragments. This is obviously not a good philological attitude, since it comes down to deforming the book for my own purposes. ❞
Roland Barthes



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