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Reading involves a fair measure of push and shove. You make your mark on a book and it makes its mark on you. Reading is not simply a matter of hanging back and waiting for a piece, or its author, to tell you what the writing has to say. In fact, one of the difficult things about reading is that the pages before you will begin to speak only when the authors are silent and you begin to speak in their place, sometimes for them — doing their work, continuing their projects — and sometimes for yourself, following your own agenda.
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Petrosky, A. (2005). Introduction: Ways of Reading. In: Writing on the Margins. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8439-5_17
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