A finely crafted vase

[jeremias at sover.net]

        All this talk of people not being able to finish GR and people not
even being able to finish a genric bestseller has brought to the forefront
of my mind the fact that most people don't even seem to read at all . . .
        I (read) somewhere the opinion of (somebody) that writing a quality
book is becoming more and more like the art of pottery, in that an author
can spend months or years working on a book, crafting it with exquisite
care, polishing the dialog until it sounds exactly right and then when it's
finally done and published it may be admired by a tiny segment of the
population.
The point being that literature may be losing it's voice in the national
dialogue. If people no longer read books then the ideas and thoughts of
authors will have no relevance to the lives of most people. Does this even
matter?