"[T]here's lots of ways to be entertained, and a good many of them are more gratifying and appealing, at least at first, than sitting down and reading a book. Therefore, if you choose to read a book today, it's not like a hundred years ago, when that was your only option. Today, when you read a book, you're making a conscious decision not to play a video game, not to surf the web, not to watch a movie, not to turn on the TV." -- Neal Stephenson
If you're in a reading mood, pick up Anathem.
2 comments:
Thank you for the beautifully depressing reminder that the thing I've chosen to devote my life to becomes less relevant with every passing day.
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I've been reading Don Quixote. It's fun to read about a senile old man who keeps thinking those windmills are giants... hmmm...sounds a little familiar. Of well, it will be over on Wednesday.
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