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I like reading.
There, I said it.
But not everyone does, as this article from GOOD magazine attests:

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http://www.goodmagazine.com/issue001/Silverblatt_on_books

And, "just 'cause", I searched out the text of the Enzenberger essay "In Praise of Illiteracy" - the site where I got the text says it was written in the mid-80s, but another site referred to its publication in the June, 2000 issue of Harper's magazine.

IN PRAISE OF ILLITERACY
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Oh, those Germans....

Current Mood: dyspeptic
Current Location: back here again
Current Music: Oingo Boingo, "Grey Matter"

I have to admit I read the headline with joy, for I wondered how it was possible to dumb People magazine down any further - though the good folks at Time Inc. managed it somehow.

Then I realized even bumwipe like this (and not even good bumwipe, since it's on such glossy paper) is also a casualty of Modern Times.

Of course! If people stop reading books and magazines, they'll stop reading the crap as well as the stuff that's actually good (which proportion has, by my estimation, hovered between one and six percent of all material published in any given year, since the invention of movable type).

Maybe this is not such a good trade.

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Time announces demise of Teen People magazine

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Current Mood: cranky
Current Location: elevated
Current Music: Pixies, "Havalina"