Sydney Lemmon and Peter Friedman in Job. Photo: Emilio Madrid In a 1926 essay called "How Should One Read a Book?" Virginia Woolf describes the difference between what she calls "actual reading" and "after reading." While we are actively, actually engrossed in a book, says Woolf, we are alert, sympathetic, and easily distracted: "One's judgment is suspended, for one does not know what is coming next. Surprise, admiration, boredom, interest, succeed each other … The friction of reading and the emotion of reading beat up too much dust to let us find clear answers." But then, there is the after reading. "Suddenly," says Woolf, as one is going about one's day, "tying a shoe, perhaps … the whole book floats to the top of the mind complete … The book takes on a definite shape; it becomes a castle, a cowshed, a gothic ruin, as the case may be. Now one can think of the book as a whole, and the book as a whole is different." A play like Max Wolf Friedlich's Job is specifically, methodically crafted to beat up emotional dust during the actual reading (or watching). It starts and ends with a gun in the white-knuckled grip… Read full this story
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