Katharina can read

my earliest memory of reading is my mother reading to me loads of supercool childrens books, i have a lot of memories of childrens books, i feel very nostalgic about them, i think they shaped my life, not because of the text though but because of the pictures i have recently been reading - other than the interent, the book the broom of the system by david foster wallace, my firrst novel in a while, i do read novels regularly but there are big intervals of non novel reading between i have a guilty pleasure for reading 'mormon mummy' blogs, i feel guilty to read them because they are bigots and they depict a lifestyle i ideologically reject, its not so much the lifestyle but their mindset behind it. how important is reading for your art practise? sometimes its really important as part of reseach phases - interviews are my favourite forms of acquiring knowledge, reading interviews with someone that knows something -- sometimes if i i have these heavy research phases i dont knwo what to do with the knowledge i acquire through reading, theres no direct relationship in my practice between research and object can you talk more about the english language? i try not to think about the fact that i'm not operating in my mother tongue, sometimes its comforting that if i am having trouble understanding something i can conclude its because its in english. its a challenge and a comfort favourite ever book? no idea are you concerned about your reading habits? no, i'm way more - if i'm concerned about anything its my language, with the fact i think im not very articulate in english, i always supsect that i read loads of quality reading i might be more articualte, i have alot of insecurity around language in general, nut not really because i think i read too little, i know i can still concentrate on a book for a stretch of time thats fine i am able to do tthat im genuinely overwhelemes sometimes by how much language there is in my life, to have to listen and read and talk all the time

if you had the choice of having only the language of a five year old german or only the be able to talk only to animals but not humans at all? i guess for the adventure i would have to pick only talking to animals, its probably all really dull though and only about sex food and death, no i suppose it isnt, some animals must have organising skills in little animal societies, theres gotta be some form of communication that exceeds sex food and death. it would be really interesting because most of them dont have the self that i have, supposedly dont have this awareness of self that i have. but i know nothing about animals

i really enjoy language though, i dont wana escape it

what is the ratio between things you read by choice and things you read by necessity 70 by choice, 30 by necessity, something like that

sometimes i confuse communication with language though cause it really isnt the same thing

i think it is safe to say i have a very ambiguous relationship with language, i dont have an anxiety about what goes in i just have an anxiety about what comes out