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<div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"Reading is
thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch
your own."</div>
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<div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Charles Scribner,
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I call nonsense on that.<br>
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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.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 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</span><br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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