Reading in someone else’s territory

The dangers in establishing and/or breaking a routine:

Because somebody watched the D&G video on UTube and commented on that they’re having trouble reading D&G, I had the strong desire to read D&G. I also responded to the UTube person’s comment, and tried to be reassuring. I encouraged them to stick with it. I know that I will be reading this book for a very long time. I may never stop (though I didn’t tell them that).

I was also spurred on to read D&G again by the return to the place where I had photographed the book last fall. We went there the other day to escape the heat – an early evening picnic.












So, I took the book out with me the other morning and sat with a coffee and started chapter 3 which is a really good chapter (so far) about geology – stratification, double articulation, the distinction between content & expression (so far).

But, inadvertently, I sat at someone else’s table at a coffee shop I don’t usually go to in the morning. I didn’t know the routine there but the one guy who seemed to be all about calling the owner by her first name and assembling a whole group around him at this place in the morning before work was very put out. I heard him loudly comment several times that he was sorry that they couldn’t all sit at their regular table. Nobody else seemed to care. But it made me overly conscious of my own presence at times when I just wanted to sink into the D&G environment.

I stayed there self-consciously for about half-an-hour.