Great Regulars: So what happened? It isn't a failure

of desire so much as one of will. Or not will, exactly, but focus: the ability to still my mind long enough to inhabit someone else's world, and to let that someone else inhabit mine. Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being.

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: The lost art of reading

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