I like the kind of reading (poetry) that allow me to read a bit and then ruminate for a long time. The kind of reading that involves being absorbed for hours in someone else's reality (novel) is not as attractive for me. Even novels, I will read in this more ruminative way. I picked up the second part the Quijote, read about his death. Cide Hamete addresses his own pen! Burying DQ means that there will be no apocryphal version like that of Avellenada, no more sallies. DQ is sane, "Alonso Quijano el Bueno."
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I do not know why I can binge-watch tv series but do not like novels. I've recently watched: Bolívar (for the view of the Andes and historical interest), Borgen (for the Danish and because the main character reminds me of every waffling MOR professor), and Call the Midwife and Sex Education because in both, the characters show each other so much more love than I see among most people in real life. I did it precisely so as to get into someone else's reality but if I want to relax with text it will be poetry or political theory. WHY is this?
What is a MOR? I tried to watch Borgen but haven't gotten into it. Sex Education is good and my friend watched all of Call the Midwife.
MOR=middle of the road, like MOR music! I just invented it. I don't know if I'd like Borgen if I couldn't listen to the Danish and say OMG, why are they acting so Danish, etc.
Call the Midwife might be a chick flick but it's fascinating as propaganda for the national health and also I remember the era so well, the first polio vaccine, the society not being so consumeristic, etc.
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