3:45am May 26, 2012

That reading speed test again.

Now I’m wondering if that actually gives me an answer to something that’s been puzzling me way too long.

Every time I write anything that I post online. And often when I write things I don’t post. I read it over and over and over and over after I’ve posted it. Not just right after I’ve posted it but later too. How many times varies.

And I’d been trying to figure out if it was because of something I ought to look at changing. And that’s still possible. I mean there could be some element of undue obsessiveness or intellectual vanity involved. But after rereading yet again what I wrote after I took that test (no seriously I did not plan that line), I’m starting to think there’s got to be some of it that’s about just plain trying to read it enough times to understand it. Since I can’t slow down my eyes easily and have to just reread a bunch of times to understand anything.

And that may sound weird for something I wrote. But looking back, often I don’t notice a simple error in a fairly short post until the fourth, tenth, or fifteenth reread. So maybe it makes sense.

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