The rights of the reader

I haven't anything profound to say about books, reading, or art at the moment, but I offer this instead.

French author Daniel Pennac published a book in 1992, called Comme un roman, published later in English as The rights of the reader. It's a terrific book about reading. He summarises the ten 'rights' as follows.

1. The right not to read.
2. The right to skip.
3. The right not to finish a book.
4. The right to read it again.
5. The right to read anything.
6. The right to mistake a book for real life.
7. The right to read anywhere.
8. The right to dip in.
9. The right to read out loud.
10. The right to be quiet.

(10 rights - 1 warning. Don't make fun of people who don't read - or they never will.)

You can find a poster of this here, with illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Propositions

What is art?

What is the role of an artist?

What is the role of a public artist?

What is participation? Live art? Agency?

Is it possible that I am a multi-modal participatory provocateur
propositioning performance artist?

What does that even mean?

A human who engages in their experience. A human that is in dialogue
with the inner and outer worlds. A person who creates or expresses
something in order to start a conversation with others. An engaged
listening, observing, formulating, sensing, responding live human.

Perhaps the artist also offers their writing and actions as
propositions, windows, opportunities for others to engage with their
own and universal experiences both private, imaginary, expressive and
literary.

We are innately artful. We are all artists.

Books and Reading

This is the theme. Beginning point. A broad ocean of a topic.
Any and all responses welcome.
Yes, please pick up your pen, feathered quill... let your fingers slide across the plastic qwerty keyboard, mouths drop open in song, and write what you are thinking.
Books and reading, what does it mean to you?