Coincidance - Principia Discordia

HOW TO READ /
HOW TO THINK
The literary reader will recognize a certain
influence of Ezra Pound's How to Read and ABC
of Reading on the following Socratic (and sardonic)
set or rhetorical questions. There is also, less
obviously, a strong influence of Korzybski's
Science and Sanity and my first 125 acid trips.
I have added a postscript in which a few new
insults are added to the injury already inflicted
on the literal-minded reader.
* "The fear of the word is the beginning of reading."
—Hugh Kenner, Joyce's Voices
Some say that reading consists in suck elementary tasks as assembling theletters "c" "a" and "i"
and forming the image of a certain furry quadruped ihai says "meow." Similarly, some imagine
that thinking consists of observing an event, pinning a label on it ("communism," "sexism,"
"good honest Americanism" or whatever) and then reacting to the event as if it were the label.
To say that these mechanical processes do not contain true reading or
true thinking will be found profoundly insulting to those people who do not
know any other modes of thinking or reading.
Since I do not wish to insult anybody, and since simple-minded people are
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