Monday, January 14, 2013

Reading? Writing?


What is reading and writing?  At the basic level writing is the act of putting ones thoughts on some form of paper.  Reading is the act of mentally hearing another’s thoughts.  However, such a basic idea does little to excite the imagination or inspire.  Both Sullivan and Harris were advocates of adding personality to one’s writing.  Harris believed that writing, even if it is the repetition of an older work, is done a new each time it is rewritten.  So, a more appropriate definition of writing would be to consider it the expression of ideas or thoughts, designed to stimulate discussions and rational or even irrational thoughts.  Reading, therefore, would be the continued survival of these thoughts and ideas, changing slightly overtime, but eventually finding themself being written down again. 

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