HPR4681: My Disabilities
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The episode explores the host's relationship with reading and literature, reflecting on personal disabilities and cultural consumption.
This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. As a child, I was so fond of reading what I saw as beautiful. Even when above [lacking] the understanding. The perception of beauty came mainly from the cover and the fonts used ( same today ) or from the place the book occupied on my father’s shelf. One of them was Tuareg. More than once I took this classic from the home library, only to glance at the first page with no interest. It was only decades later — some years ago — that I saw the title again, and read with pleasure and no difficulties. It’s not a hard read, even to a 12 year-old, probably only the argument, the plot, didn’t catch me by then. Anyway, I was attracted to the book, as if simply wanting to read it made me part of the classic, the intellectual. I have less of this today. [I mean,] Not the inability to read a lot of books, but the urge to be a consumer of certain cultural product. Maybe due to not greeding to build a personal image, content without exposition. Still, sometimes, wanting to consume a piece of media and being unable to.. I wanted a story of robots, the book I though was not available [(All Systems Red)], so I bought one of scientific fiction…
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