Why I Will Never Finish the Books I Own: A Play Told in the Form of Freud's Structural Theory of the Subconscious
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Superego: Nenia, stop downloading all those books. You already have more than you could conceivably read in a lifetime.
Ego: At least read some of what you have before downloading more. Just make sure you read twice of what you plan to download.
Id: But what if you're suddenly gifted with the superpower of reading at faster than light? You'll want to stock up, be prepared!
Nenia: I seeeeee.
*downloads, hoards, downloads, hoards*
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Superego: Nenia, stop downloading all those books. You already have more than you could conceivably read in a lifetime.
Ego: At least read some of what you have before downloading more. Just make sure you read twice of what you plan to download.
Id: But what if you're suddenly gifted with the superpower of reading at faster than light? You'll want to stock up, be prepared!
Nenia: I seeeeee.
*downloads, hoards, downloads, hoards*
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Mairéad (is roaming the Undying Lands)
(last edited Mar 11, 2014 09:25PM)
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Mar 11, 2014 09:24PM
OMG, NENIA. You just described ME in a nutshell lmao. Except with physical books lol. xD
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Mairéad (stuck at the Edge of Nothingness) wrote: "OMG, NENIA. You just described ME in a nutshell lmao. Except with physical books lol. xD"I'm like that with physical books as well.
I have a problem. But I don't want to fix it. >_>
That is totally me... and you know??? that speed of lightning thing.... It is getting acomplished.. kind of... I do read pretty f..n fast.. jajaja that my Id talking
Add the following calculation:Office job + same procedure as every month - fun + time pressure *stress + 95% of male colleagues = at least 1 book every fortnight in the shopping card
Then you have me.
Loki (of Smartassgard) wrote: "*looks totally guilty*"
@Bookkitten: I don't speak math. :'(But I DO recognize when someone is in the same boat as me!
Howdy, shipmate!
Mairéad (stuck at the Edge of Nothingness) wrote: "OMG, NENIA. You just described ME in a nutshell lmao. Except with physical books lol. xD"Same here!
I was literally about the say the same thing, then I read your comment. :P
Oh my god, I just saw this after complaining about my DNFs. I swear our subconscious is linked.
By the way, I AM BLESSED WITH THE POWER OF READING FASTER THAN LIGHT.And I will still never finish all the books.
Khanh (Destroyer of Dreams) wrote: "Oh my god, I just saw this after complaining about my DNFs. I swear our subconscious is linked."Sisters by another mister. This is us. <3
Khanh (Destroyer of Dreams) wrote: "By the way, I AM BLESSED WITH THE POWER OF READING FASTER THAN LIGHT.And I will still never finish all the books."
Of anyone in the world Nenia, you're going to get the closest to this with your 2014 goal of reading 1000 books - you're leaving us all in your dust. And if you haven't got speed-of-light reading, then what hope does the rest of us have? There needs to be an infallible, personalised, automatic book checker that will tell you, just from looking at the title or reading the blurb, that this is/is not the book for you and why. That would save us all a lot of wasted book reading time. Inventors? Please invent that and we'll all pay you lots of money.
Or something to make you read faster... Have you guys seen this? http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/m...
Oh my god, if such a thing existed, I'd be like,
Figgy wrote: "Or something to make you read faster... Have you guys seen this? http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/m..."
I've seen it. Wasn't too impressed. It's pretty similar to the priming experiments psychologists have been using for decades. Reading is so ingrained in our culture that it's easy to prime the subconscious with the written word.
Not sure how well reading comprehension would fare, though. Recall vs. retrieval, and all that. It's a matter of short-term vs. longterm memory, and I fear that the reader would quickly forget what they'd just read at that speed, and wouldn't have time to let it cement into the longterm memory.
I know people that can read at crazy speeds and have pretty good comprehension, but I enjoy taking my time. While sometimes I do wish I was able to read faster.
Nenia wrote:But I DO recognize when someone is in the same boat as me!
Howdy, shipmate!"
