cav you ARE speical! now put your helmet back on and go give your toes new names :-D
Seed wrote:cav you ARE speical! now put your helmet back on and go give your toes new names :-D
Nah, I have a dog with a name, and no soccer ball, and I'm okay with that.
Jackie, reading is a way to separate ourselves into the world of fantasy and the world of what is.
At this point, I have a reader's block, but I still remember every book that I have ever read.
and what is the dogs name?
Seed wrote:and what is the dogs name?
You have to read the novel to find out.
oooo I like a challenge... now what novel is that?
Seed wrote:oooo I like a challenge... now what novel is that?
I shall take you seriously, but it's not much of a challenge really, or perhaps that IS the challenge....perhaps the secret is not even a novel...
hmm, how deep this has gotten... perhaps it doesnt even invovle reading
Seed wrote:hmm, how deep this has gotten... perhaps it doesnt even invovle reading
Nope, just a little browsing.
Not a great reason not to, but...
I've heard that sitting around reading books (which include novels) is just as bad for your body as playing video games. (I don't remember who said this; he was on the news.) Incidentally, there are many more obese people in my English classes than in my Finance classes.
Err, for what it's worth, Francis Bacon: "To spend too much time in studies is sloth". I'm not sure how pertinent this is, since studying may not involve novels.
I guess there's only a problem when reading novels is all you do.
Immanuel, I suppose you could say that about anything that consumes your time so much that it interferes with 'life'.
I have an excuse, I work at home and have the ability to multitask. That bunny still has way more posts than I....
Immanuel, don't fall into the trap...then we'll have to start a support thread for A2K junkies, and that's just enabling, really.
A2k can be addicting at times and like reading, it's one of life's pleasures.
Immanuel, don't fall into the trap...then we'll have to start a support thread for A2K junkies, and that's just enabling, really.
I don't think there's any danger of that. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a moocher since I never really contribute anything to this board; I just come when I need help or have a question.
Anyway, I am off to the gym to try and read Carew's poetry while perpetually ascending the Stairmaster.
Blackie might know that. He might be conjecturing.
Novels, and poems, and even sometimes non fiction, set your mind to thinking, meandering, and perhaps surmizing, sometimes in new and different ways. Novels grow a life of the mind.
Well, some of them do. Some others of them are piffle.
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Note, this answer fits better at the end of page one, which is what I answered it from, however confused I was.
I am not thrilled that we all should dump on blackie chan, who has posted here over quite a long period of time. I'd rather listen to him.
I believe there are many novels which are and can be wonderfully illuminating and contribute greatly to one's understanding of life, himself, and the people he encounters. The problem is the difficulty of sorting out what is truly worthwhile from all the trash that is published. The only reliable guide I know of is to select only those works that have stood the test of time. A novel that communicates real understanding even as the manners artifacts and details of the age and place in which it was written pass from the scene is more likely to address enduring human issues than one that merely tops the charts today.
If people don't read books, then they do stupid things like look at porn, or they rot their brains with TV and video games
