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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 21:50:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- References: <1992Dec31.175313.25919@athena.mit.edu> <1992Dec31.183207.25805@crd.ge.com> <1992Dec31.191350.2498@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.191350.2498@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.183207.25805@crd.ge.com> meltsner@crd.ge.com
- >writes:
- >> [test deleted]
- >> [Janice's note: I scored 17. Can anyone beat me?]
- >
- >I scored 19. (The reprimand was in school though, not work.)
- >
- Twenty-two. <splat>
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- Just last week I triumphantly carried a copy of Daniel Dennett's
- _Consciousness Explained_ downstairs to put on the shelves, only
- to find the copy I bought a few days earlier on the table.
-
- I must really want to read that book.
-
- --Barbara
-
- "When your mother says 'I'm going to clean house,' all the little
- hairs on the back of my neck stand up. She means she's going to
- roll up the carpets, paint the living room, defrost the refrigerator,
- and reline all the shelves. When *I* say 'I'm going to clean house,'
- I mean I'm going to pick the books up off the floor." --my aunt
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