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Subject: 
Re: Reading in steep decline?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:45:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
> > Something else I should have asked in my other note...
> > 
> > What counts as reading?  If I get a CD with someone reading the Illiad to me,
> > does that count?  Obviously, I'm not engaged in the specific physical act of
> > parsing written language, but I am exposing myself to literature.  I do, in
> > fact, listen to books on tape and CD while driving.
> 
> It doesn't count as reading while driving unless the book is propped open on the
> steering wheel.

That doesn't count as reading either!

... but it does count as evolution in action.



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"Larry Pieniazek" <larry.(mylastname)@...areDOTcom> wrote in message news:I0JqsJ.8C7@lugnet.com... (...) to me, (...) act of (...) do, in (...) open on the (...) Not if the reader is driving a Humvee... Reading really is a set of skills: 1. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) It doesn't count as reading while driving unless the book is propped open on the steering wheel. Dave! (22 years ago, 8-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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