We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit. (Northrop Frye)

We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit.

Northrop Frye

Related topics

experience forgetting read study text unit while

Related quotes

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. View quote
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of. View quote
Manuel Puig
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. View quote
John Mearsheimer
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. View quote
Michael Pollan