Here's William Blake on Dr. Johnson:
‘Lo the Bat with Leathern wing Winking & blinking, Winking & blinking, Winking & blinking, Like Doctor Johnson/ Quid. ‘Oho’, said Dr. Johnson To Scipio Africanus, ‘If you don’t own me a Philosopher, I’ll kick your Roman Anus. ’
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If the book is heavy, or spready like a newspaper, a lap ain't enough.
See Reynolds's portrait of Johnson squinting as he reads to show how
concentrated reading should be...
http://www.fineartprintsondemand.com/artists/reynolds/dr_samuel_johnson.htm
Max (recently squinting at it or its likeness in the Huntington, Pasadena...)
Quoting Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>:
> Liz Grosz's book on architecture seems to also address this doubling
> question, from a quick look through.
>
> I was taught to read sitting at a desk, back straight, knees together
> and do not slouch. This way you give maximum attention to the text. But
> I am going to sit in a lounge chair, with the TV on and read...
>
> I am the only one who reads at desk, still? Somehow, I doubt it, but was
> curious.
>
>
> On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 19:19 +1100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > innate multiple redundancies which close
> > down the freedom of the imaginative text and imaginative image and limit
> > the double only to a foreclosed already stated future which governs also
> > the image as a narrative of fore-shadowing and back-shadowing, which is
> > also Gary Saul Morson's side shadowing argument against, in his reading
> > of Bakhtin.
>
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