Date Finished: Oct 14, 2021 Author: Thomas Foster Tags:

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

Detailed analysis of literature, hidden symbols and meanings. The author presents a framework of reading any work of visual art, from books to comics and movies and even leaflets.

🎨 Impressions

Deep and insightful book.

How I Discovered It

Dementyi in Zettel chat mentioned it, then Sukhovskii advised to read.

Who Should Read It?

Any person who wants to begin to understand what is happening in any fiction book should read Thomas Foster's work.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

I haven't read any work of fiction yet ([[Thursday Murder Club]] doesn't count), but as soon as I start one, I'll be cautiously looking for hidden symbols. DR. Thomas recommends creating a list of symbols and ideas. That is what I start doing while assembling notes from the book. Somehow ideas must be transfered and applied to Russian prose or the prose that I know and have read.

✍️ My Top 3 Quotes

Yet to be found

It’s simply impossible to write or direct in a vacuum.

📒 Ideas

• When we read a book, we read it differently, analytical skills vary from reader to reader.
  • Acquisition of the language of reading requires time and effort.
  • Literature has its grammar too.
• When reading, read through the prism of the specific questions. There are various questions are at our grasp:
  • Where did that effect come from?
  • Where have I seen that situation? (more often than not in Bible and Shakespeare)
  • What a specific incident tells us thematically? What certain misfortune mean and what are underlying assumption of cause and effect.
• Several things separate professional reader and amateur:
  • Memory.
  • Symbol.
    • Be patient, look at the past experience of rivers, labors, apple and events to see similarities. Break a piece or writing into manageable chunks take notes, associate, brainstorm.
  • Pattern.