"Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my
way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful
for me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a
few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text
suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a
tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an
itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to
the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The
stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even
if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those
few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never
exhaust."
-- Italo Calvino
replace reading with moving and book with move.
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