> Until you've absorbed the rhythm and the literary style also reading outloud helps i used to tell people the first one will take you two months, the second

> Until you've absorbed the rhythm and the literary style also reading outloud helps i used to tell people the first one will take you two months, the second one will take you two weeks, and the third one will take you two days i meant it as playful encouragement but i think it may have put some people off also, i just like taking more time with texts than it takes me to read them it took me two weeks to read the first sentence of basho's oku no hosomichi: "moon and sun are passing figures of countless generations and years coming or going wanderers too"