An Act of Resistance in a Landscape of Distraction

“Read­ing is an act of resis­tance in a land­scape of dis­trac­tion.… It requires us to pace our­selves. It returns us to a reck­on­ing with time. In the midst of a book, we have no choice but to be patient, to take each thing in its moment, to let the nar­ra­tive pre­vail. We regain the world by with­draw­ing from it just a lit­tle, by step­ping back from the noise.”

— David Ulin via How to Sur­vive The Age of Distraction