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How To Read, Perhaps
« … substantial, healthy sustenance …» for imagery «is also available in certain, though by no means all, works of cheap literature … ans so it happens that the person who can see more deeply can find the elements he really needs in the lower depths of writing and graphic art …»
… a few signs on a reading & writing path to be followed … so as not to loose kinship with chilhood, imagery’s nether sources, faculties to imagine freedom … love of independence arising from adventure tales for children such as Il Corsaro Nero and Costal l’Indien … crossing the threshold through old engravings …
«It is true that in the world of art no form is so affected in the course of enjoyment, is so deformed and destroyed, as narrative prose.»
… crossing the threshold through engravings as portals … to roam illustrated books as dream worlds «where everything shifts at every step» and draw out figures—pull out, tear out, wrench, wring from, root out—sounds and figures as weeded out, altered, warped, heaped and rearranged in reading as toys «mislaid, broken and repaired» in playing …
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The quotations—in order of appearance—are from
«Children’s Literature», «The World of Children’s Books» and «Old Toys»,
by Walter Benjamin,
in Vol. II, p. 255, Vol. I, p. 435, and Vol. II, p. 101, respectively,
of his Selected Writings, 4 vols.,
Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London (England),
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1996-2003.
«Children’s Literature», «The World of Children’s Books» and «Old Toys»,
by Walter Benjamin,
in Vol. II, p. 255, Vol. I, p. 435, and Vol. II, p. 101, respectively,
of his Selected Writings, 4 vols.,
Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London (England),
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1996-2003.