For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
Interpretation
Reading should be an enjoyable experience rather than a complex task focused solely on knowledge or puzzles.
Roberto Bolano emphasizes the pleasure derived from reading, suggesting that it should be an enjoyable activity rather than just a means to acquire knowledge or solve intellectual challenges. This perspective highlights the importance of finding joy in literature, viewing reading as an experience that enriches our lives through pleasure rather than solely through its educational value.
In practice
In a book club meeting, to encourage members to enjoy reading for fun rather than just for analysis.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. Thatβs the honest truth. But itβs cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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