Reading Women
Reading with someone else who's also reading is a special agreement, you could call it an erotic pact. It's a permitted space right at the centre of togetherness, a separate but still shared silence and concentration...
...You know when you can read with someone like this that you're truly at home, truly permitted to be yourself, with her or him. I love to read with someone else reading beside me - it's a profound agreement of company and breathing space, maybe one of the most intimate things you can do with anyone.
(Ali Smith in the Guardian.)
The photo is Lee Miller and her best friend Tanja Ramm, taken by Miller's father, Theodore Miller.
The article, from which the Smith quote is taken, is a delight: instead of reviewing Stefan Bollmann's Reading Women, women writers were asked to comment on some of the images contained within the book of, of course, women reading.
Reading with someone else who's also reading is a special agreement, you could call it an erotic pact. It's a permitted space right at the centre of togetherness, a separate but still shared silence and concentration...
...You know when you can read with someone like this that you're truly at home, truly permitted to be yourself, with her or him. I love to read with someone else reading beside me - it's a profound agreement of company and breathing space, maybe one of the most intimate things you can do with anyone.
(Ali Smith in the Guardian.)
The photo is Lee Miller and her best friend Tanja Ramm, taken by Miller's father, Theodore Miller.
The article, from which the Smith quote is taken, is a delight: instead of reviewing Stefan Bollmann's Reading Women, women writers were asked to comment on some of the images contained within the book of, of course, women reading.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home