In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the
process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,
be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with
the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous
thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thence-forward in our
ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself
in a thousand colored pictures to the eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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