A finely crafted vase

[Bill Nolan]

On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, <jeremias at sover.net> wrote:

> [ . . . ] most people don't even seem to read at all . . .

[ . . . ]

>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?

This is just another instance of the fragmentation of modern society and culture. 
Treknoids are amazed when they ask whether I've seen the latest version of "DS9" 
and I ask, "What's that"; football fans grin when they ask whom I favor in the 
upcoming Bowl game and I ask, "Who's playing?"

Instead of the "two cultures" that C.P. Snow wrote about, we now have the n 
cultures. It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

--Bill
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