“For me, then, the act of reading was its own kind of essential school.
A customized school built and run just for me, one in which I learned so many important lessons…
While I was part of a larger system, I was able to secure another, more personal system of my own.
The mental image I have of a space of individual recovery is exactly like that. It’s not limited just to reading.”
– Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation
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I love this idea of a space of individual recovery.
A place to withdraw and recover from the demands of the ‘real world.’
For those of us lucky enough to have reading as our space of individual recovery it is simple.
Pick up a book and read.
Withdraw from the world.
Put the book down
Return to the world replenished.
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