Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.

(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one before you can hope to do the other, but you don't do the other simply because you do the one.

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. —Chuang Tse: XXIII

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

People don't want to mess with an unorthodox thinker, the paradoxical nature is too much. Comprehension gets lost in all the senses but the seed of understanding is planted. Only time will tell.

I'm not a barbarian.