about reading
by troels steenholdt heiredal
the pressure of all of the books in the world, there will always be a great book you haven’t read, a book you ought to know to read how to select what to read where to start, to begin, what not to read
I have never read Jane Jacobs I have read Charles Olson Equal , that is to the real itself at least five times; I’m trying to listen to what he is trying to tell me I have read small parts, not nearly enough, of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari A 1000 Plateaus I have read bits and pieces in Das Passage Werk actually it’s in The Arcade Project , my german is not that good. I have never really read Deleuze only an approximation of Deleuze in English and in Danish
I really ought to have read Jane Jacobs I have acquired Frank Wilson The Hand Kafka’s Diaries Dostoevsky’s Idiot I haven’t read them – yet [I hope] they are staked in my storage unit in Copenhagen
I have read Roland Barthes because Christine Rose recommend me to do so. I have read tons/ a lot of emails not always because I want to I think it is evident that I have read and enjoyed George Perec.
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I have read on my computer on my iphone on pieces of paper in books signs subtitles translations tried minds, gave up, on labels album covers walls roads shirts I can’t read notes [music] a lot of people/ some people can’t read mine often that’s by design I write so only I can read it sometimes, not using all of the charterers words becoming lines, to keep it an ‘open’ secret text messages instructions facebook updates hopefully all you have written me between the lines while eating drinking almost asleep on busses trains planes ferries boats in cars lecture halls beds living rooms my room classrooms garden benches town squares beaches aloud in silence in groups alone maps drawings plans sections elevations isometrics for my entertainment for school for you for me danish english french dutch german norwegian swedish spanish mexican spanish colombian spanish dominican spanish puerto rican spanish italian polish newspapers magazines pamphlets booklets reports inscriptions bedtime stories fairy-tales thick books thin books large books small books and books in-between of sorrow and pleasure of kings and queens peasants and aliens space travel and time travel and travels to other countries of good guys and bad guys and some you couldn’t determine what was about cowboys and indians eskimos and the people of the stone age the bronze age the dark middle ages munches and beggars summer winter spring fall in the morning afternoon and evening I have read runes I have learned a few Japanese and Chinese characters but forgotten all again about the sun while in the rain and the other way around and sometimes about the sun while it being in my eyes making it hard to read sometimes the rain fall on the pages making it equal hard to read words cast in concrete in brass in bronze words removed from stone gravestones plaques diplomas applications recommendations letters shopping lists charts directions to a place/ on behaviour gestures body language faces photos figures fortunes spells speeches words that left me speechless less is more hard-core words I still think about in paint ink pencil slow and fast the time about time just in time all day and just for a few minutes on balconies in chairs on stools while standing laying waiting walking running driving the path of a balls movement the room the mood in good mood in bad mood good texts bad texts texts that didn’t leave an impression tonight yesterday and the day before that texts that made my happy sad cry angry smile laugh blink believe slow down run out the door out of words stop f
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