“Beppu (n.)
The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”
Douglas Adams book The Meaning of Liff
Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
“Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book.”
Book I, Canto VIII, II The Revelation.
The Angel In The House (1854)
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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) <br class="br">Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. <br class="br">Source: The Bell Jar
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
A Little Girl Lost, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
"To David in Heaven", St. 9.
Undertones (1883)
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist
As quoted in B. F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas (1968) by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73.
Context: We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
“Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher:”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
Context: Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher: as Joyce says, it's about a dreamer, but it's addressed to an ideal reader suffering from ideal insomnia.