{"id":2147,"date":"2020-02-13T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobwolff.org\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T17:29:45","slug":"elementary-my-dear-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwolff.org\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/elementary-my-dear-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary My Dear Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read yesterday. I know, big deal \u2013\nright? But I am not talking about texts on my phone, email on my laptop, or\nroad signs in my car; and not even the closed captioning on the TV (reflection of\nmy hearing loss sadly). I read a book, a real book! And I fulfilled a self-promise\nat the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Books are underrated; they are, in my\nopinion, victims of progress; they are slowly disappearing. They are far from\ngone, but the printed literary glacier is definitely receding. Humans have this\ngreat generational need to enhance and improve anything and everything they\ncan. It is in our nature to refine and reform things; it subtly demonstrates that\nwe are brighter and better than our previous generations. Think about the\nIndustrial Revolution; almost daily new inventions sprang forth from the\nfertile minds of scientists and inventors, all designed to make life better,\ntasks easier, and work quicker. Their days were long and arduous back then; there\nwas much work to be done but it was all performed with centuries-old methods and\ntools. As the age of discovery blossomed, so did the quality of life for\nmillions as new methods, devices, and tools made work easier and faster. And\nthese people developing all these new means and methods that made life easier and\nbetter were generally regaled as heroes; even to this day the names Edison,\nTesla, Watt, Whitney, Morse, Westinghouse, Bell, Carver, and Franklin evoke\nfeelings of awe in light of their contributions. And of course, staying on subject,\nGuttenberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the archaic state of technology\nback then, there were huge improvements to be made and every new invention\nopened up a dozen more avenues for improvements. And since that spark, the\nfires of inventing and improving have burned brightly in our culture, with\nevery generation taking aim at whatever their particular skills enabled them to\npursue. This could either be a refinement of an existing product (such the\nradio) or a development of something completely new (such as the TV). The\nengineers and developers whose skills were best suited to new development\ntypically worked for large companies with deep pockets of cash for research and\ndevelopment such as Boeing, Westinghouse, and General Electric, along with\ndozens of others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is another pool of people;\npeople who did not fit the mold of the typical industrial R&amp;D model. These\nfolks would see a product used in daily life and would have the vision to\nmodify it or repurpose it without the huge effort and cost associated with designing\nand making it from scratch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The point is, there is a huge\ncontingent of people always looking to make things better. The general\npopulation benefits but of course, the developer also benefits. And the goal is\ngenerally to develop that one great thing that makes them independently wealthy.\n&nbsp;And perhaps, to record their name in\nhistory. But\u2026after some period of time it becomes somewhat difficult to find\nways to either improve on something or to find a new use for it. The prevalence\nof fruit hangs on the new invention tree; you need to come up with something new\nthat will excite the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And these days, that fruit is heavily\nelectronic. Phones, cameras, watches, and similar items are all being repurposed\nand renovated. Look at smartphones; they now perform dozens of tasks none of\nwhich have anything to do with a telephone. And this path is open to both sides\nof the creative minds: developers are at work making new phones with new\nfeatures while app developers are sitting in their home office developing quick\nlittle programs to amuse us or help us with almost any electronic task conceivable.\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, after a period of time the tree\nbegins to grow bare. There are just so many ways to alter or redesign things.\nAnd for new ideas\u2026.we have so many different things now, that tree is rather\nbarren as well. So the pressure is really on for every new generation of\ninventors and developers; coming up with the next great thing is increasingly\ndifficult. And so they turn to things that don\u2019t really need improvement; books\nbeing a fine example of that. Amazon started the fad of taking printed matter\noff of paper and digitizing it, at last I think it was them with the Kindle.\nAnd initially, I get it; you can take a dozen books with you all on the same\nthin device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it isn\u2019t the same. Maybe it\u2019s my age,\nmy old school boomer stubbornness. But I need to read more than a couple of sentences\nat a time; show me the page \u2013 two in fact \u2013 all in my field of vision. I like\nto be able to scan ahead, or go back a few sentences, without moving anything\nbut my eyes. And I like to read more slowly in the parts that arouse me, that stimulate\nme, in order to savor each word and to simmer in the juices of the seasoning\nand flavors brought forth by each word, each ingredient, that the author chose\nto incorporate. And I tend to read more quickly as I work through the fundamental\nor rudimentary sections. All done with merely my eyes\u2026no screen to swipe or\ntilt or tap or whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the smell! Old paper and ink have\nan intoxicating aroma. There is little else like the smell of an old book. For\nthat matter, there is not much more enjoyable than the smell of a new book; I\ncan still instantly and immediately go back to my 4<sup>th<\/sup> or 5<sup>th<\/sup>\ngrade classroom as the boxes with our new Scholastic Reader books were opened\nfor distribution. If you were lucky, as I recall being several times, you were\nable to order enough books that you got your own box! You just don\u2019t get any of\nthat with a digital download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I was young, I read voraciously.\nPart of it may have been because there were only three TV stations and not a whole\nlot of exciting programming for a kid. And the other part was simply that I\nloved to read. I great summer day for me at one point in my life was to climb a\ntree with an AM radio, some snacks, and a book. I\u2019d find a comfortable fork and\nsettle in for a delightful afternoon of reading. And I still not only remember\nmany of the books that really stoked my literary fire, I still have some of\nthem. In some cases, I retained them (rarely) and in other cases, I went out\nand found a used copy and bought it. I recently bought two Scholastic Reader books\nthat were probably my first two favorite books. I bought them for my grandson\nin the hope that he might enjoy them as I did, but truthfully, I also bought\nthem to have them and hold them once again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was one book in particular that\ntraveled the years and miles with me and was, I think, my most treasured book.\nI wrote of it not too long ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/bobwolff.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/18\/whats-that-in-the-road-up-ahead\/\">What\u2019s\nThat in the Road Up Ahead<\/a> last August. The book is \u201cThe Complete Sherlock\nHolmes\u201d by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Its 1,122 pages feature all four novels and\nall fifty-six of Sherlock\u2019s adventures \u2013 supposedly the entire collection of\nhis works. I read it as a teen, twice I think, and have held it for all these\nyears as a treasured keepsake. As much as I loved reading, it fell by the\nwayside mostly due to time, or the lack thereof. As you have no doubt read from\nthis blog dear reader, I worked a lot of hours for a lot of years \u2013 like most all\nof them. And that, coupled with family and everything else in life, left\nprecious little time. And for most of that precious little time, I was flat out\nexhausted; honestly too tired to read. At least, too tired to read for\npleasure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recall please that I held positions of\ngreat authority and responsibility, especially in the last twenty years of\nwork, and most especially in my time in Facilities. In that job I was\nresponsible for a lot of huge manufacturing building (many of them over 50\nyears old), massive electrical distribution systems, air compressors and air\nsystems, boilers and steam systems, plumbing, storm drainage, and a host of\nother industrial systems. Much of what I needed to know came from my constant\nand incessant reading technical manuals and books or articles. I felt that in\norder to properly be responsible for these systems, to care for them correctly,\nthat I needed to learn all I could on the theory and functional aspects of each\nof them. I had a great number of talented and fully capable and qualified technicians\nto care for all the equipment \u2013 professionals and specialists each. They did\nthe work, but to be the one ultimately responsible, I felt I needed to know as\nmuch as possible myself. So any reading I could find time to do, was industrial\nin nature; all work related. No time was left remaining for pleasure reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As such, reading was always on my retirement\n\u201cto-do\u201d list. And \u201cThe Complete Sherlock Holmes\u201d was first on the list, going\nback for as long as I dared begin to dream of retirement. As I approached the\nmagic moment, I began to seriously make my plans and finalize my \u201cto-do\u201d list.\nReading, and the complete Holmes, remained on the list but ended up being\nshuffled down the list a bit. Physical activity, getting back into shape, was (is)\na big deal to me, and given that the advent of retirement and of Springtime nicer\nweather were conjoined, staying inside and reading didn\u2019t make sense to me. I\ndecided to wait for winter to read, and once winter got here, I still found\nmyself well occupied most every day and hadn\u2019t begun yet when the new year\narrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But another part of that delay was the\nbook itself; it was not to be found \u2013 anywhere. Even though I had no plans to\nread it immediately, I think it was still summer when I began to look for it,\njust to lay eyes upon it. And each time I would think of it, and go look for\nit, and fail, I\u2019d think it must be somewhere else and it\u2019ll turn up the next time\nI look. But that didn\u2019t happen, time after time it failed to appear. My wife\nthought she had likely stuck it in a box somewhere, and remained certain we\u2019d\nfind it. But we didn\u2019t. So I recently went to the Amazon website and found a\nused copy being sold by a small book dealer through Amazon. It was the first edition\n(1930), 15<sup>th<\/sup> printing. It is same one I had as a youngster, although\nthat one was certainly a much later printing, likely contemporaneous with my\nschooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The read began at the beginning, as it\nshould. While this book is really just a container, a vessel, for the four\nnovels and fifty-six short stories, all of which had been previously printed,\nand certainly one could begin on page 984 with \u201cThe Adventure of the Illustrious\nClient\u201d, it is a book after all and as such, deserves to be read from beginning\nto end. First up is \u201cA Study in Scarlet\u201d, the first of the novels. I have\npersonally always preferred the shorter adventure stories to the novels, but\nthe reader\u2019s obligation mandated to begin at page one. Before I knew it, I had\ndevoured all the words and paragraphs and was done. And it was a delightful and\nfulfilling read; far better than I had recalled. And though I had no memory of\nthe order or chronology of his tales, this was deservedly first as this is the\ntale in which Holmes meets Watson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The art and craftmanship of Doyle\nleaps out immediately in this first novel; his ability to paint a scene with\nwords is extraordinary. But beyond that, his vision for who (and what) Holmes\nis, and the depth of his vision for the character is nothing short of amazing.\nAnd the concepts for the various adventures, and especially how Holmes solves\nthem, leaves me in awe. Such an amazing author! His writings were for profit,\nof course, he wrote to be published. But as with any author, his primary\nmotivation was to please his reader; to satiate their hunger for good writing,\na good story. And when you think about writing, it is the great equalizer.\nEvery author has the exact same tools; pen and paper and the words of the\nnative language being used. The rest, the separator, is the vision and imagination\nof the one writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a gift, of course, the ability\nto paint and enthrall with words. As is painting, creating music, and all the\nother arts. But this singular gift of writing mesmerizes me more than all the\nothers; perhaps because I have dipped my toe into the waters of literary\ncreation since I was in my teens. I am not an author but would love to be one.\nI hold those with the ability to write in high esteem and admire them to no\nend. All their work is crafted with nothing more than the words in their mind,\nin their vocabulary. They take those words and arrange them in such a manner so\nas to create something pleasing to the reader. \n\nAnd that is something\nwe all need to think about, to ponder. It has nothing to do with a high-powered\ncomputer, fancy paints and brushes, expensive musical devices, or anything tangible\nat all. Writing is merely taking the words you already know and placing them into\na pleasing series so that people will enjoy reading them. It is something we\ncan all do. Of course, there are few, if any, capable of arranging them such as\na Doyle or a Hemingway. But try your hand dear reader, write a story for a\nchild or a friend. The gift of creation is never closer to us than it is with writing.\nJust another of the gifts that are hidden within us that you never know is\nthere until you try. And if you just don\u2019t enjoy writing, please pick up a book\nand read a little bit. The words, and their specific order, are important, but\nthe vessel is also an integral part of reading. (So says the guy who has a\ndigital blog \u2013 yes I get the irony.) As for me, I am off to settle into my\noverstuffed chair and read my next tale: \u201cThe Sign of Four\u201d.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read yesterday. I know, big deal \u2013 right? 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