It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips — biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake trips. Non-readers, what do they get? (They get the munchies.)

Maxine Hong Kingston
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It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips but non-readers what do they get?(They get the munchies) refers to the fact that people who read books often take their reading experience out of the world we know and into other dimensions we cannot reach. For example, we may be able to experience a work of art or a piece of music as art or as music, but we cannot experience it as literature. We cannot experience it as a book. The same is true for those who read. They may live in our world, but they go on trips to other worlds.

Source: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

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