yeah, but were the teenagers male? just kiddin. great convo.
--- On Tue, 7/28/09, jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Boys & Reading
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 5:19 PM
> I quote from a conversation overheard
> at a bookstore, between two teenagers. "You know, life here
> is so fucking boring that I just pick up books and read
> them". The other one: "Yeah, books are the shit."
>
> Lots of things go on that are not caught by "averages" or
> other quantification mechanisms. And let's not forget that a
> good book can make a reader for life. Schools don't really
> make readers except in the most mechanical sense.
>
> mrt
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