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- From: ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper)
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:16:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.211619.5635@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <1htqodINNbui@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu> <1992Dec31.175313.25919@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.175313.25919@athena.mit.edu> kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
- > anxiety when I cannot read. This week, for the first time in two
- > years, I neglected to bring reading material for my daily subway ride.
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- Speaking of which, another test of biblioholism is: Do you spend more
- time planning what books to take on a trip than what clothes?
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- Clothes are easy--two pairs of pants, a couple of shirts, a couple
- of T-shirts. But should I take the thick Dickens novel I've been
- wanting to get to? Or maybe a couple of thinner books so I can
- carry the current one around easier? The science book would be good,
- but it's a hardback. Is bringing an science fiction book to a science
- fiction convention coals to Newcastle? If so, is it less silly if I
- plan on getting it autographed? And so on.
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- Evelyn C. Leeper | +1 908 957 2070 | att!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com
- --
- "To make the point [that homosexuals hamper military effectiveness] I'd
- say that you would have to sift through your military history till you
- find an instance in which failure has been attributed to the presense
- of homosexuals on the losing side. I'm not aware of any such case in
- the past 2500 years, but I'd be interested to hear what you find."
- -Nathan Engle
-