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(1) Why should we read? (2) Harold Bloom, author of How to Read and Why, offers several reasons. (3) For one, he argues, reading is a solitary activity that nevertheless “alleviates loneliness” and in doing so provides a replacement for friendships, which are “so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear.” (4) Secondly, Bloom contends that reading is “the most healing of pleasures”; it returns us “to otherness” and yet also makes us “wholly ourselves.” (5) According to Bloom, “only deep, constant reading fully establishes and augmentsan autonomous self.” (6) Read not to change the world or to be a better person, Bloom urges, but simply to know, to become, yourself.

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