"<p>Read with strength. Sometimes read with more power than the force of the writing you are reading was produced with. Read with reverence, passion, attention, and unrelenting. The writer may babble, but you read tersely. Listening to every word, one after another, back and forth in the book, seeing the clues that lead you into the thick of it, listening for the secret signs that the writer may have failed to detect as he moved forward in the mass of his work. Never to be read with a puffed-up, casual eye, as one invited to a divine feast, and only to rummage in the food with the tip of his fork. Read elegantly, generously. Read it as if you were reading the last book in the mortuary that the jailer put in your cell. Read for life and death, for that is the greatest, the human gift. Consider that only man reads.</p>"