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The Lost Art of Reading
By Gerald Stanley Lee
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Table of Contents
- The Lost Art of Reading
- Contents
- Book I Interferences with the Reading Habit
- The First Interference: Civilisation
- I Dust
- II Dust
- III Dust to Dust
- IV Ashes
- V The Literary Rush
- VI Parenthesis To the Gentle Reader
- VII More Parenthesis—But More to the Point
- VIII More Literary Rush
- IX The Bugbear of Being Well Informed—A Practical Suggestion
- X The Dead Level of Intelligence
- XI The Art of Reading as One Likes
- The Second Interference: The Disgrace of the Imagination
- I On Wondering Why One Was Born
- II The Top of the Bureau Principle
- The Third Interference: The Unpopularity of the First Person Singular
- I The First Person a Necessary Evil
- II The Art of Being Anonymous
- III Egoism and Society
- IV i + I = We
- V The Autobiography of Beauty
- The Fourth Interference: The Habit of Not Letting One’s Self Go
- I The Country Boy in Literature
- II The Subconscious Self
- III The Organic Principle of Inspiration
- The Fifth Interference: The Habit of Analysis
- I If Shakespeare Came to Chicago
- II Analysis Analysed
- The Sixth Interference: Literary Drill in College
- I Seeds and Blossoms
- II Private Road: Dangerous
- III The Organs of Literature
- IV Entrance Examinations in Joy
- V Natural Selection in Theory
- VI Natural Selection in Practice
- VII The Emancipation of the Teacher
- VIII The Test of Culture
- IX Summary
- X A Note
- The Seventh Interference: Libraries. Wanted: An Old-Fashioned Librarian
- I viz.
- II cf.
- III et al.
- IV etc.
- V O
- The First Interference: Civilisation
- Book II Possibilities
- I The Issue
- II The First Selection
- III Conveniences
- IV The Charter of Possibility
- V The Great Game
- VI Outward Bound
- I The Issue
- Book III Details. The Confessions of an Unscientific Mind
- I—Unscientific
- I On Being Intelligent in a Library
- II How It Feels
- III How a Specialist can Be an Educated Man
- IV On Reading Books through Their Backs
- V On Keeping Each Other in Countenance
- VI The Romance of Science
- VII Monads
- VIII Multiplication Tables
- II—On Reading for Principles
- I On Changing One’s Conscience
- II On the Intolerance of Experienced People
- III On Having One’s Experience Done Out
- IV On Reading a Newspaper in Ten Minutes
- V General Information
- VI But——
- III—Reading Down Through
- I Inside
- II On Being Lonely with a Book
- III Keeping Other Minds Off
- IV Reading Backwards
- IV—Reading for Facts
- I Calling the Meeting to Order
- II Symbolic Facts
- III Duplicates: A Principle of Economy
- V—Reading for Results
- I The Blank Paper Frame of Mind
- II The Usefully Unfinished
- III Athletics
- VI—Reading for Feelings
- I The Passion of Truth
- II Topical Point of View
- VII—Reading the World Together
- I Focusing
- II The Human Unit
- III The Higher Cannibalism
- IV Spiritual Thrift
- V The City, the Church, and the College
- VI The Outsiders
- VII Reading the World Together
- I—Unscientific
- Book IV What to Do Next
- I See Next Chapter
- II Diagnosis
- III Eclipse
- IV Apocalypse
- V Every Man his Own Genius
- VI An Inclined Plane
- VII Allons
- I See Next Chapter
- Footnotes
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