[ExI] quote of the day

[William Flynn Wallace]

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> "Reading is thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch
> your own."
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> Charles Scribner, Jr.
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> I call nonsense on that.
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> Reading is filtering someone else's words through your own mind. I suspect
> it rarely stretches the minds that need stretching the most.  Quite the
> cynic, are you?  I do agree with your filtering idea.  Semanticists tell us
> that we never get 100% of what is transmitted.  As for who gets stretched:
> the rich get richer; the poor, poorer - as always.   bill w
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> --
> Ben Zaiboc
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