Slow Criticism: Responsibilities of Reading Well (Editor's INTRODUCTION‪)‬

Philology is that venerable art which demands of its votaries one thing above all: to go aside, to take time, to become still, to become slow [...]--this art does not so easily get anything done, it teaches to read well, that is to say, to read slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers ... Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak (1881)