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June 21, 2003
Additions: August 10, 2004
Experiments in reading:
Read nothing but poetry
for an entire
weekend Experiments in listening:
week
month Intentional overplay
Try and reinterpret TOTAL_IMMERSION
it's devices.
Read the line breaks ((mention the
as much shorter Pauline Oliveros
pauses than you book here?))
usually do.
Try pretending they're not
there, read it straight
through like prose.
Find on-line poetry
that you can
automatically BROKEN_LINES
reformat as you like.
Read aloud.
Read aloud on tape.
Directed programs.
Decide you're going to get into a subject,
focus on it for months. E.g. "urban planning".
Greater focus.
Pick a single thing, a book
(even something shorter) and
read it through without Pick just a part of the
getting distracted by other work to focus on...
things (no newspapers, no Don't get distracted by
web sites, etc). it's bulk.
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When you reach the end,
start reading it again Pretend that the book you're
from the beginning. reading has been serialized
in a magazine. Divide it
into 4 parts, read just one,
and then stop for a month.
You're allowed to re-read
previous parts while waiting
for the month to elapse.
Stop thinking like a
consumer, and think
like an artist.
You are creating an
experience for yourself
with the choices you make.
Read that which you
never read.
Read that which you
have ceased to read.
Read something that you
think you're totally
familiar with.
Read it differently:
Backwards:
Chapters in reverse order.
Paragraphs? Sentences?
Sideways:
Look at the words down the
first column of the page.
Do web searches/encyclopedia
look-ups on all proper names.
Of late (Aug 10, 2004),
I tend to read multiple
books at once,
alternating between
works that complement
or contrast each other
in some way.
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For example, I re-read
Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums"
with a few books of Snyder's
poetry at hand, and a copy of
the "Diamond That Cuts Through
Illusion" by Nhat Hanh as a
basic work on Buddhism.
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