Originally Posted by Frownland

I'm not sure how he meant it, but for me, reading to people is using people as a form of notation for how I read something in my head. I try to syncopate my brain voice to their actions in real time so that I can see what I'm reading in the context of my own time more clearly.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.