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Here’s one from Wikipedia: In a 1994 interview with The Paris Review, Gottlieb described his need to "surrender" to a book. "The more you have surrendered," he
by richardatlarge 3y ago
Here’s one from Wikipedia:
In a 1994 interview with The Paris Review, Gottlieb described his need to "surrender" to a book. "The more you have surrendered," he said, "the more jarring its errors appear. I read a manuscript very quickly, the moment I get it. I usually won't use a pencil the first time through because I'm just reading for impressions. When I read the end, I'll call the writer and say, I think it's very fine (or whatever), but I think there are problems here and here. At that point I don't know why I think that—I just think it. Then I go back and read the manuscript again, more slowly, and I find and mark the places where I had negative reactions to try to figure out what's wrong. The second time through I think about solutions—maybe this needs expanding, maybe there's too much of
this so it's blurring
that."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gottlieb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gottlieb
- dang 3y agoThat's fascinating - thank you! He's describing a phenomenological as opposed to analytical approach.