/lit/ - Literature

>>16272750
Yes, currently on page 42 (21) and this experience took me 3 days.
The retard that I am, it takes me time to fully comprehend some paragraphs, but along the way it gets easier. All this up until you stumble on another paragraph that gets you confused. I stopped at one page for almost one hour (I am taking notes in the meanwhile) and I thought that maybe its nothing significant worth understanding. But pursuing the text, going pages back, sometimes just a little ahead, takes me once more to the page and EUREKA! Finally I can digest the words adequately. Oh, and they are so neatly put into the sentences. And it gets easier because your curiosity doesnt just follow you, it leads you to a methodical inquiry, all while guided by Heidgger's text.

Hubert Dreyfus also mentioned how when younger, he had a low attention span when reading, but said that this was an advantage for him, as he mentions that we can't just comprehend pages of magnitudinal works of philosophy without a careful reading of it, accompanied by breaks. From what he was saying as I recall, he couldn't read more than 10-20 pages per day. And his sublime openness and care gives me hope.