Originally discovered this passage in a Methods Reading class, but with help from the Google, learned it's from How to Speak How to Listen, Mortimer J. Adler:
How People Read
When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth. They read every word three ways; they read between the lines and in the margins; they read the whole in terms of the parts and each part in terms of the whole; they grow sensitive to context and ambiguity, to insinuation and implication; they perceive the color of words, the odor of phrases and the weight of sentences. They may even take the punctuation into account. Then, if never before or after, they read.
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