The other day when I was looking through the October 26th edition of The New Yorker magazine, I stumbled upon this picture. It is an image of a man reading a book with a galaxy expanding behind him. One quality that I really love about this image is that it can be interpreted many different ways, and the more that one looks at it, the more meanings there are to discover. It can be seen as God thinking up the universe, or even a man who lives among the stars with the sun as his light. It is truly up to the reader's interpretation to identify what the hidden meaning is.
I believe that this image is meant to show the power of reading. Reading can take a person to an entirely different world. Each word provides another detail to add to the ever growing image of the situation a person is reading. Reading also allows creative interpretation. Each person who reads a book, a magazine, or even a newspaper can have a different vision of the events described. This has always been one of my favorite pastimes. Reading encourages people to have independent thoughts. No one can force another person to see something a certain way when reading is up to interpretation. To me, this image provides readers the same type of experience as reading words does. One can create an entire world for this man to live in. Maybe he too is creating a world for another person.
Reading is a magical pastime which has the ability to transport one to another world, or even create an entire galaxy from a blank space.
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