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Expanding the definition of fun.

Artful reading enlarges our sense of language and understanding.

Most of today's reading is done to extract information and discard it once it's used. Artful reading takes the time to appreciate a thoughtful phrase or a nifty turn of words.

Here are some questions to consider:

What do you bring to your reading?
Is there an anticipation?
Ever re-read a paragraph because you thought it was beautifully put together; just for the simple pleasure of it?
How about Laughing out loud at some unexpected word play?
How many times do you return to a book you've read before and found new nuggets of understanding?
Are the words casual?
Refined?
Shifty?
Any disguises in fallacy?
What is the mood?
Is it formal or informal in language?

Literary fiction is alive and well. Classic literature gives us the examples for the many tools used by the past masters. Modern masters have taken this classic approach and added many more mediums of language to communicate our current modes of story telling. Humans have come a long way since the old fireside stories of the past.

Techno friction is a huge and growing epidemic. How many juxtapositions are artificially driven?

Confusion is a common approach to story telling. Juxtaposition is a common device used to portray a decent set of twisted images. A good writer will show the viewer all the twists and turns. Sometimes they're multi layered and offer new directions to explore when re-reading a particularly favorite book or story.
 

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