Reading is confrontation

I was flicking through some notes I have in search of a lost thought when I came across this gem by Levi Asler (1. 4. 05. -I know!)

Reading is confrontation. At the end of a good book you may decide to change your life, and a reader or writer is somebody for whom that possibility is always open. This is why a person who discovers a great work of literature (or music or art or any other form of creative expression) often appears for the moment like a crazed animal twitching and mumbling incomprehensibly. Don't talk to this person... give them time... they are emerging from some cocoon right now and you are an unwelcome witness.

Trying to think of the last piece of creative expression that affected me thus.

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