YankeeJim:
mkg335: .if one can read, and sees words, it's impossible not to read them
One needs to master the art of un-seeing the universe. Zero gravity helps..............
YJ, most of us probably haven't reached that state of Zen yet, which I'm guessing occurs in the vicinity of death or thereabouts.
But to clarify for the curious, that state of being unable not to read (if one can read) is called automaticity, another example of which is the memorization of multiplication tables. We who had to do that as kids cannot see 6 x 3 and decide to forget it's 18.
Automaticity frees the mind/brain for deeper pursuits, and the fact that it fell out of favor in education during the latter part of the 20th century did a great disservice to kids in school during those years...still does as far as I know, I've been out of the game for a while.