“The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, ones responses are isolated, ones intellect thrown back on its own resources. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 04:00:03 +0000
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