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There are certain books for which the idea of being done, finished with reading it doesn’t any longer make sense. To truly be a reader of such works would be to be perpetually trailing the text. The Bible for a religious person, the civil and criminaThere are certain books for which the idea of being done, finished with reading it doesn’t any longer make sense. To truly be a reader of such works would be to be perpetually trailing the text. The Bible for a religious person, the civil and criminal code for a lawyer; sacred Scripture supposed-not-to-change vs. a ceaselessly revised and revisable Order of the profane. And somewhere between the two, the Complete Stories of Franz Kafka.
Your progress as a reader is measured by how far behind in your reading you are. (A complication of this definition: to be a student is to be behind in ones reading; to be a scholar is to be behind in ones re-reading. To be a writer, then, means to be ahead of ones being read.)
P. Sloterdijk is said to have said re: Deleuze and Guattari that one page of theirs is the equivalent of thinking for a year. This thought may not speak too highly of Sloterdijk’s own thought! But it is a fitting tribute to the schizoanalysts. I have occasionally applied a similar notion as a criterion of the temporality of legal scholarly research: does one gain more insight from perusing an entire volume of the Harvard Law Review or from reading a single aphorism by Nietzsche? To this could be added yet another of the same series of ideas, perhaps the most radical: it just might be possible to learn more from Kafka’s one or two page parable “Before the Law” than from a whole law school education – provided that one first wasted ones time in law school....more
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