why literature will never die
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Why literature will never die
had an experience of what reading literature can be like, when I travelled in Kenya some years ago. I was taking a bus from Nairobi to Mombasa, an approximately 15 hour trip. We had been driving for about an hour or so, when a piece of paper was handed to me. I took a closer look at the paper, and realised it was the first page of an English paperback novel. I looked around and noticed that in the seats in front of me everybody had a page of the novel, when they finished the page they passed it to the person next to them. I read my page and gave it to the woman sitting beside me, and I received a new page. I can't recall what the novel was about, but I re
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of the story. This is why I prefer to read a story, rather than receiving it passively through a
television screen. Furthermore I can control when I want to read, and if there are passages I want to read again, I can begin with the ending and change the way I perceive what is written in the text, if I want to.
Being on a Kenyan bus for 15 hours and sharing a story with a 100 people I had never met before, gave a sense of being together in the process of reading a book. We could discuss the story while waiting for a new page, and other issues emerged, e.g. African and European culture. People will always read literature, because the words gives us a brush to paint our imagi
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