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Originally Posted by hermes
He suggested that people read out of a neurosis, a nervous wish to busy their minds with useless information, ideas and mental images because they are afraid of the content of their own minds. 'Well, that's why I read", was my immediate reaction.
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Are you kidding me???!?!?!
*breathe*
*gasp* Okay.
Sorry, but that sounds like a load of pretentious crap to me.
I'm not even sure how the first and second paragraph lead to the "point" of your post there at the end. (While I do believe reading is socially useful, I don't necessarily see tree-shaded reading groups as the epitome of usefulness.)