The Joy And Enthusiasm Of Reading

Simon (China (Hong Kong S.A.R.))
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  1. voracious
    devouring or craving food in great quantities
    High school was followed by college, where I read Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader,” in which it is said that the reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.
  2. reversal
    the act of switching the order or place of
    For example, the reversals of things (“fair is foul and foul is fair”).
  3. metamorphosis
    striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
    I may not have known why Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is about a guy who turns into a bug, but I knew that some said cockroach, and others, European dung beetle.
  4. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
    The first thing he did was point out the repetition of motifs.
  5. masculine
    associated with men and not with women
    Supposing the truth is not hard, fast, masculine, simple, direct?
  6. parable
    a short moral story
    “Therefore speak I to them in parables: Because they seeing, see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.”
  7. acclaim
    enthusiastic approval
    His book, “The Ice Storm," was made into a critically acclaimed movie.
Created on Mon May 06 20:42:42 EDT 2013 (updated Fri Jan 30 01:46:27 EST 2015)

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