The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109129 Message #2279149
Posted By: Rapparee
04-Mar-08 - 09:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: How do you read?
Subject: RE: BS: How do you read?
As I said, my family reads anything with print on it. Even things like "Put firecracker on ground. Light fuse. Get away. Do not hold in hand." or "CAUTION: Bullets can be dangerous. Range one mile. Be careful." or "Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae." Even if we don't understand it we read it. Ingredients lists. Computer chip specifications. Flour bags. Those huge long sheets of teensy print that come with medicines. Books on post-natal mathematics. We read by sun and candlelight, and after we die we'll probably read the labels on the inside of our coffins (although putting a couple good books in with us would a nice gesture as the plot on a label runs thin after the six hundredth reading).