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On Looking

Paperback • 2013 • English

On Looking

By Alexandra Horowitz

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About the book

You are missing at least eighty percent of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you. In marshalling your attention to these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. It enables us to not just notice the shapes on the page, but to absorb them as intelligible wor...Show more

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ISBN

9781471126208

Publisher

Simon Schuster Ltd

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

On Looking

Format

Paperback

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