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Do Donna Tartt's The Little Friend on your own two feet? Always wanted to give Willem Frederik Hermans' The Darkroom of Damocles a twist? Finally experience the ending of Georges Perec's 53 days? With a well-structured training all this can be within your reach. Aided by the Toolkit for CREATIVE READING you can master the new way of reading in just ten easy-to-follow steps.
Some rules before you get started on CREATIVE READING in 10 steps:
1. Accept the fact that your thoughts and fantasies are unique: they have never been thought by others before you.
2. Do not shrink back from your awakening fantasy and the accompanying sense of uniqueness.
CREATIVE READING in 10 steps:
1.
Read one final book the traditional way - from cover to cover. Make a note of the date on which you have finished reading this book. This will allow you to later make the rightful claim: yes, on March 11th I have read my last book the old way.
2.
Always leaf through a book before you start the actual reading. Let the edges of the paper flip past the tips of your fingers, press the book close to you, sniff it and see what effect physical contact with the book has on you.
3.
The next step is to read half of the book. If you reach the middle you must skip ahead ten pages and pick up the storyline again. Fill in the gaps using your own imagination. You should now be able to feel the fire of your own imagination burning inside you.
4.
Allow the pogo stick of your imagination to reach further and further. Keep widening the hole with every next book. Do this by systematically increasing the number of pages you skip in every book. Take steps of ten pages each. Always work from the middle of the book: add the pages alternately to the front and the back of the gap. You will find that your imaginative powers will increase with every step.
5.
Look for those words, expressions, phrases, images and feelings that elicit a maximum, personal and visceral response. Stir clear of those words that refuse to surrender any clues or leads. Doing this will prevent your imagination from bouncing like a ball on the edge of a hoop. This phase is also well-suited for discovering which genres work best for you.
6.
Try to alternate this process with training without a book. Rub your magic lamp to summon your favorite genie and have him or her do exactly what you have always longed for. Have him or her get behind you to rub your shoulders, or to put his or her head in your neck and start licking you ever so softly. Have him or her tongue follow the path you have dreamed of so often. Try not to do too much in one go, build on your train of thought gradually, but be willing to fan the fire of your imagination to the fullest when necessary.
7.
Continue to work mercilessly with the method as described under step 4 until only the first chapter remains. Now you are where you want to be. From here on you will limit yourself to first chapters.
8.
Read the first chapter, like in the old days when you were just learning how to read, out loud. Your imagination will now be stimulated to the utmost. You may look upon this process as a blending of your imagination with everything the book supplies you with. Think of it as whipping cream while you gently, or more vigorously, stir in brown sugar to your own taste.
9.
After you have taken in ten books in this manner you will know the results: in the time it used to take you to read one book, you will now be able to read three, four or possibly even five. But, more importantly, you have fought yourself free from the straitjacket of the confining total story. Your fantasy is no longer under arrest and is now fully open to a richer and healthier inner life. From here on you may call yourself an emancipated reader.
10.
Enjoy the privileges that come with having mastered the new reading, but always remember to keep your story to yourself. Respect the freedom of imagination and grant fellow readers their own story.
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