What are the advantages of Ba Jin's peculiar reading method?

The writer Ba Jin's reading method is very strange: reading without reading-sitting there recalling the books he has read is like a cow ruminating. This has many advantages:

1, which is not restricted by conditions and can make full use of time. Ba Jin cited two examples: one was that during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded by the Germans for a long time, and a young girl wrote such sentences as "So-and-so, Anna karenin" in her diary. There was no electricity and no candles, and the whole city was out of power. Instead of reading, she sat quietly in the dark, recalling the plot in the book. Tolstoy's novels helped her through those terrible nights. Another example is his own personal experience of ten years of civil strife. He said: "If the rebels allowed me to keep a diary during the Cultural Revolution and allowed me to keep a diary according to my own wishes, my diary must be full of titles. People will wonder: my study has been blocked for ten years. Where can I find those books to read? They forget that there is a big warehouse in people's hearts, which stores things that others can't take away. " These two examples show that you can "read" without normal reading conditions.

2, review the old and learn the new. Through memory, take out the books you have read in the past and chew them bit by bit, just like cattle ruminating, which can be further digested and absorbed. Every time I recall, I will have a new understanding, a new understanding and a new harvest.

3. Be able to constantly draw spiritual strength from the books you have read. Ba Jin said: "I am now struggling with my illness, and all kinds of works are inspiring me ... Even if I don't have the spirit to read new works during my illness, the spiritual wealth accumulated in the past is enough for my limited rest of my life. Until death, people need light and heat. "