Trevor Burrows on Nostr: The transcription of the proceedings is just one step, however. "Samizdat provided ...

The transcription of the proceedings is just one step, however.

"Samizdat provided not just new things to read, but new modes of reading." (171)

Some of these modes:

* binge reading in order to pass the documents on or return them as quickly as possible: "staying up all night pouring through a sheath of onion-skin papers because you'd been given twenty-four hours to consume a novel that Volodia was expecting the next day, and because, quite apart from Volodia's expectations, you didn't want that particular novel in your apartment for any longer than necessary"

* slow-motion reading: copying the text by typewriter while reading, "as a thick raft of onion-skin sheets alternating with carbon paper slowly wonud its way around the platen, line by line, three, six, or as many as twelve deep"

* group reading: reading in an assembly line fashion, passing pages down the line as you finish them

* site-specific reading: you go to particular places to get access to certain texts