LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

  “ For philology is that venerable art which exacts from its followers one thing above all, to leave themselves spare moments, to grow silent, to become slow — the leisurely art of the goldsmith applied to language: an art which must carry out slow, fine work, and attains nothing if not  lento. … it teaches how to read well, i.e. slowly, profoundly, attentively, prudently, with inner thoughts, with the mental doors ajar, … " ( Dawn , 1881.)

I started reading Nietzsche at 16. Right now I am in the midsts of Irving Yalom´s When Nietzsche Wept . He was a philologist, as you know, and in his Preface to Dawn he writes: "I have not been a philologist in vain - perhaps I am not one yet: a teacher of slow reading. I even come to write slowly. At present it is not only my habit but even my taste... For philology is that venerable art which exacts from its followers one thing above all - to step to one side, to leave themselves spare moments, to grow silent, to become slow... it teaches how to read well, i.e. slowly, profoundly, attentively, prudently, with inner thoughts... learn to read well!"