Carr describes it, "Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." I have personally stopped reading as well, like Scott. It's half because of my own attention span and half because my tastes and the books I normally read aren't that long. Unlike Bruce, I can easily sit down and read a long article. I don't care to, as it usually doesn't interest me, but I could easily do so if I had the time. While giving Nietzsche the opportunity to write a bit longer thanks to the ease the typewriter put on his hands and eyes, the typer writer also changed his style of writing. Carr said it "changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style." And my style of writing changes depending on the...
