Thread 24637766

Can the whole Bible be read in a day?

>>24637766 (OP)
I used to work as a clerk in a government bureau and I had to have this man sign some paperwork. I was explaining what the paperwork was about and he said "Stop! I'm fine, I can speed-read." He picked up the paper and scanned his eyes back and forth across the page three or four times and said "done!" I still don't know if he was trolling me, he seemed earnest and boasted about how quickly he could read books that took most people weeks. I wish I had been able to record it it would've been a legendary /lit/ mp4.

>>24637766 (OP)
No

>>24637771
Excerpt from The Medium and the Messenger:

In 1967 he became caught up in the fad for speed-reading and took an Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics course. (His son Eric became an instructor in the Evelyn Wood program.) McLuhan thought that speed-reading was suited to grasping the essence of printed works. It revealed patterns, not data, he insisted. Occasionally he astonished colleagues with claims that he could read 1,500 words a minute or go through Milton's Paradise Lost in five minutes. In a more candid frame of mind, he later confessed to a friend that, although he took speed-reading seriously when he first attempted it, in the end he found it useful mainly for reading junk mail.

Back in the past sometimes it was said that all things occur during the duration of a single day.

>>24637766 (OP)
Read, maybe. Understood, no.

>>24637771
My father was a clerk too and a priest.

>>24637766 (OP)
>another christcuck thread that needs bait for engagement

>>24637851
>go through Milton's Paradise Lost in five minutes
Kek, no fucking way.

>>24638002
Earlier on in the book it mentions that he learned Paradise Lost off by heart, so it's actually not so unbelievable.

Yo're looking at about 1800 dense pages. Just read the important parts, e.g. Thessalonians.

>>24637766 (OP)
You're in a rush, sinner?

To read it in 24 hours you need a reading speed over 540 wpm for 24 hours straight.

But for verses it's more like 22 verses a minute, I bet you could look at most verse and read it in 2.5 seconds if you know the verse intimately, you could set up a slideshow to play all the verses that fast. I would study it in Chinese then to maximize information density. You must not read it on a book because of losing time on flipping pages and scanning.

>>24637766 (OP)
Its possible if you read it in Latin.

>>24637771
My dad used to work at Nintendo doing coding for early video games in the 90s. He used to talk about this Italian guy who could read a thousand lines of code in about 10 seconds and be able to debug the broken parts of the code immediately after speed-reading it. He would say "Hey look! The a-problem is a-this!" and point at the screen all excited. Apparently they named Luigi after him and gave him a green shirt because this guy's favorite color was green.