How i read - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess

this is the third and final (for now) installment of my reading series for paid subscribers. part one, Poser ethics, was an essay about aesthetics, reading culture, and the fine line between “performance” and “authenticity”. part two, What I read, was an extensive series of reading recommendations. This one is basically about how I developed and continue to maintain a life built around reading and writing as a person with a terrible work ethic and a phone addiction. randomly it is 5000 words long which is also why it’s late. Someone told me once that the most deeply-felt benefit of learning about a topic like urban architecture or local plant life is that it tangibly improves and enriches the experience of walking around. Once you start learning about that stuff, the density of accessible information per city block increases in an extremely literal sense: you are able to engage with more of the world than you were before, even though the amount of physical world around you has not chan

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