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- From: nadel@attatash.aero.org (Miriam Nadel)
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.232813.2488@speedy.aero.org>
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- References: <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu> <1992Dec31.192332.14857@ninja.zso.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:28:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.192332.14857@ninja.zso.dec.com> rcrowley@donne.zso.dec.com (Rebecca Crowley) writes:
- >Other times this question has come up, I've heard stories from people
- >who, when children, sneaked flashlights into bed with them so they
- >could read under the covers.
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- My brother (proprietor of the Northern California branch of the Nadel
- library, while I get Southern California and Mom has Lawn Guyland) and I
- had a very odd twist on this. I don't know which of us figured this out
- but we discovered we were less likely to be caught reading in bed by
- flashlight if we climbed inside the (zippered) quilt cover to read.
- Less light leaked out if you were under the quilt and inside the quilt
- cover than if you were just under the covered quilt. I suppose if my folks
- had caught on they might have switched us to blankets but they never said
- a word.
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- I might also note that my very favorite excuse for not doing chores as a
- child was "I'm in the middle of a chapter." One merely has to time this
- so that one starts the next chapter before parents ask again and one
- can quite effectively avoid mowing the lawn, raking leaves, weeding and other
- heinous garden chores until Dad realizes that bribery may be in order and
- offers to pay one for doing them.
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- Miriam Nadel
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