tributarium,
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I dunno, I just mean like, in a qualitative way. A painter just puts the paint on the canvas, mechanically speaking, but there’s some idiosyncratic internal imagery going on as they make the decisions as to what goes where, right? Some people do things faster than others. I imagine some people read more by theme, maybe including reading several pieces on the same thing in sequence. Others read more by character. Some people see literature as being morally instructive, others as escapism. Some people are very sentimental and loving towards some aspect of a work and not an other. Some people re-read a lot. I actually re-read about half of a novel because I initially came into it with a lot of suspicion but as I became sympathetic to the protagonist and author midway through the book I wanted to go back and suck in what I’d already read with more generosity and love. We all do things a little differently, it’s fun to hear about how folks do it.

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