Click to sound like you read books
In these stories, enlightenment, or kenshō, is consistently associated with the mundane; the teacher guiding the sessions on my app, Henry Shukman, continually promises me that everything needed for awakening etc is all already here.
Lolita is a comparison I want to reach for because Knausgaard does a tremendous job of getting us close to Kristian, of encouraging us to share his mind-space despite the fact that he is an almost irredeemable ass.
As far as I can see, digital writing platforms have still failed to answer the simple and essential question of phone-app reading, and they won’t be the ‘disruptors’ they think are, until they do.
...most questions we encounter are either too big or too small to say anything interesting about.
‘Desire is the feeling which urges us to go to something and loathing is the feeling which urges us to go from something.'
Why read fiction? As in, why bother? Especially when it comes to ‘hard’ novels (serious-complicated-posh-literary novels). If someone who only reads Simon Sinek or Mark Manson asks you at a party, what’s the point in reading Proust, what should you say?
