The submissive reader
René Magritte, The Submissive Reader (1928)
To read is to submit to the point of view of the book. To submit to the book-point. Reading is an act of self-release, whether we're reading fiction, non-fiction or anything in between, an act through which we learn to forget about ourselves. We submit to the page by committing our mind to the word thereon.
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