How to Read a Silent Book

Sally Kohn: I'm wondering, what alleviates that for you? Is it getting your head in the mindset of that person and how they would have wrote at that time? What were some strategies to sort of get through that.Kohn: It is really, it really is patience. There's a book from the late 17th century called the Mutis Leiber. The language of alchemy can be quite dense. And so this is a way of doing it, right? By just reading it without,. You try to understand that, but you got to give a little effort."

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