Chloe Thurlow
So true!
I always try to check who is who that I am quoting, given that I find the words all over the place in books or on random pages or searches. Apparently Chloe is a writer of erotic fiction who mother doesn't speak to her. Or she could be a knitting designer, but I think I'm going with the author here.
Books, reading and time make for a fascinating investigation of the relativity o time i think. Time is such a fluid concept and just as she says here, when you are deep in a book, utterly committed to it, using every spare moment, delaying and postponing other things just to get the time to read it, you do honestly lose yourself.
It is wondrous that words on a page can have that much power. That they can virtually warp time. Somehow their effect is as if to place you in a form of vacuum where there is no sense of time, that you exist somehow beyond the notion of it.
Just fabulous.
And yes, the hours grow wings and fly...
So, so true... I remember standing at the stove stirring pots of food whilst reading when my children were small, trying to get in any moment with a book I could. I finally stopped reading new novels for a years and re-read old favourites as the insatiable desire to keep turning the pages was lessened with them. It wasn't even a negative really as it allowed me to go deeper into those books and gain greater understanding, finding passages that as I got a bit older, with different life experiences became meaningful in new ways. I suppose that brought some element of "newness" that kept me engaged because I never found myself skipping through them at all.
ReplyDeleteOh I have this image of you trying so hard to stay connected to that book and that story whilst all of life's demands were calling you - but it was too good to let go of! And what an ingenious solution - the re-reading is like spending time with a good friend who you learn something more about each time you meet. There is a real satisfaction in that, and also in letting go of the need to discover the new when time doesn't really make that easy.
DeleteThat old saw "time flies when you're having fun" definitely applies to reading
ReplyDeleteIt sure does for me Liz. Oftentimes also when I am deep in my making it flies, and I guess too when enjoying time with family and friends it can really fly!
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