Soaressilva/art history

É meio bobo isso que eu escrevi em 2002, mas continuo gostando desta citação de David Thomson: "I daresay the myth prevails in some quarters that people who have their head in a book a lot of the time are not terribly "sexy." Those people are said to live in their own heads -- a residence that is sometimes regarded as close to prison or madness. Yet where else do the out-of-doors types reckon that sexuality waits (and rehearses) but inside the head? Let's try to put it this way: In all the practices available to men and women to foster sexual and romantic feelings I don't know one that is as intense as reading. There is no need to rate the several arts in terms of their potential for getting deeper into experience, or into our souls. Still, I believe that the formulation and articulation of ideas and feelings through prose has no superior. And when that delight comes in the solid form of a book, why, the bookish have nothing to be ashamed of. I will say it here and now: The sexual capacity of the well-read has struck me as being far beyond that of people less literate."