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In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age
January 14, 2021
How should we read? The S-word makes it sound, like it or not, like a moral injunction deep, passionate and enthusiastic readers we may well be, there nonetheless remains something about the way we transform marks on a page or screen into images and ideas in the mind that leaves us feeling like failures. Modish neuroscience may provide at least some of the answers: the ability to read and write unlike speech isn’t hard-wired into the human mind-brain, but rather, such is our neural plasticity, that we’re constantly changing in our very essence so as to refine these skills. Perhaps this is why reading always feels a little like striving unless we’ve mastered the facile trick of reading entirely for pleasure, a subject to which I’ll return.