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- From: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <29868@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 17:18:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.050130.24366@sophia.smith.edu> <1992Dec31.175313.25919@athena.mit.edu> <1992Dec31.183207.25805@crd.ge.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <1992Dec31.183207.25805@crd.ge.com> meltsner@crd.ge.com writes:
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- ~As I was told by a friend when I first got married, and started
- ~Parenthood is the only way to stop incessant reading. Janice dropped
- ~from ~180 a year to ~70 (40 or so for her review column) when Billy
- ~was born.
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- Abserlootely!! If I devoted 25% of the time to reading that I'm now obliged
- to spend preparing and administering feeds, changing nappies, washing small
- items of clothing etc. I'd pass Jan Yarnot's yearly tally some time in the
- middle of March.
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- Now I can only read books that lie open without the use of hands, and whose
- pages can be turned using a toe, or a nose, or a pencil held in my teeth,
- and that are comprehensible to someone who has just been woken up at 4 a.m
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- ===Jeremy Henderson===jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk=
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- This message cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
- Bloody good value if you ask me.
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