Minds like Empty Rooms
Most people today don't read. And if they do, it will be on tracts on how to make money, be successful, inspiration stuff and so forth. Practical and pragmatic stuff.
Harper Lee made a very rare print appearance recently and made a telling observation.
She tells O, The Oprah Magazine, that in her Depression-era Alabama village "youngsters had little to do but read".
The 80-year-old adds that in today's society "where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books".
Source: BBC news article.
2 comments:
The day books cease to exist is the day I shoot myself in the head. Paperbacks rock
Merv, I take it that you read quite a bit then?
Regarding books, do you not like a nice hardcover in your arms?
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