Wow. So I do read like you, only slower/less prolifically. I often read back-to-front, as I was taught in classical Hebrew and Chinese. Spoilers notwithstanding, it exposes structure. Ditto with trying to decipher Latin-based languages before letting the machine do my work for me. The traditional doctor you met/stayed with in San Francisco instinctively did this too. It yields all kinds of interesting insights. Working with him every day [akin to Miroslav Prochazka in the book you're reviewing] was the only/best graduate school/apprenticeship I could have completed. If we'd all stayed in Woodbridge I would have similarly showed up at your door – as I did at your dad's – with incessant questions, being swatted away like a mosquito just confirming I was in the proximity of a deep vein of wisdom. It Takes a Village Indeed.....
Wow. So I do read like you, only slower/less prolifically. I often read back-to-front, as I was taught in classical Hebrew and Chinese. Spoilers notwithstanding, it exposes structure. Ditto with trying to decipher Latin-based languages before letting the machine do my work for me. The traditional doctor you met/stayed with in San Francisco instinctively did this too. It yields all kinds of interesting insights. Working with him every day [akin to Miroslav Prochazka in the book you're reviewing] was the only/best graduate school/apprenticeship I could have completed. If we'd all stayed in Woodbridge I would have similarly showed up at your door – as I did at your dad's – with incessant questions, being swatted away like a mosquito just confirming I was in the proximity of a deep vein of wisdom. It Takes a Village Indeed.....