How to read a book?
Yan writes: While reading How Should One Read a Book by Virginia Woolf, I come across some words and phrases whose meanings I am not quite certain. Could you help with one of them? The sentence goes like this: But if you open your mind as widely as possible, the signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. What does “the twist and turn of…” mean? Does it mean one distorts the true meaning of what an author writes?
My comments: It's a good question, as all questioning is good, good in that it might lead to good answers.
Speaking of which, I know I don't always have good answers. That's why I don't take mightily good questions, such as this one, head-on all the time. I have, however, a simple answer as I as a man have come to relish the simple in preference to the complicated.
And the simple answer to your last question is NO.
No, you mustn't distort the meanings of an author when you read his work.
At least don't practice doing it on purpose, ok?
Subconsciously we do distort authors, you know. We do it all the time. Language, as it were, contains innumerable ghosts, with layers and layers of hidden meanings and nuances.
Due to different upbringing and experience, we perceive the world quite differently. We do the same with words. The same words often mean different things to different people.
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