Speed-reading might be useful for commercial documents, but when it comes to serious writing, it blurs out all the really interesting parts.
The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he's probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour, which means he could have digested Jane Eyre during his lunch break and still had time to chew through half of Ulysses before returning to classes. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel like a slow, slack-jawed simian struggling in the frontal-lobe department.
That's just not good enough for literature.
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I did not know about speed reading and literature just don't mix. Thank you for sharing the information. Reading is one of the most effective ways of rendering the available information into intellectual knowledge.
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