The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Please help yourself to the questions. I'll be interested to read what you write on the subject.

Believe it or not, I had not actually considered stress as a factor in loss of reading attention--and I consider stress a factor in everything.

I realized last night after posting this and seeing so many interesting comments that my desire to "read more" is, at the moment, of a piece with my desire to accomplish more of everything--that it is, in short, one more stressor in my life, one more goad.

That is no way to have a relationship with any text. Thank you for that clue: it's a big one.