Reading women

"Reading with someone else who's also reading is a special agreement, you could call it an erotic pact. It's a permitted space right at the centre of togetherness, a separate but still shared silence and concentration [...] You know when you can read with someone like this that you're truly at home, truly permitted to be yourself, with her or him. I love to read with someone else reading beside me - it's a profound agreement of company and breathing space, maybe one of the most intimate things you can do with anyone. "

Estic completament d'acord amb aquesta afirmació que Ali Smith escriu en un magnífic article del Guardian on es demanava a algunes escriptores angleses que escollissin una imatge del llibre Reading woman, o com la icona de la dona lectora, nua o vestida, ha fascinant a artistes de tots els temps. Per variar (la Miller m'apareix a tot arreu), Smith tria una fotografia que el pare de Lee Miller va fer a la seva filla i a Tanja Ramm, al llit.