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As asperations go. . .
It's one of the sillier ones. Remember High School? We all had to read a couple of 'classics'. How many of us actually got anything from it?
That's right, not many of us, even among the 'serious' readers in the group. There is a difference between reading a book and getting something out of it. Just because you read it and maybe even memorized pieces of it for an exam, that doesn't mean you are even CAPABLE of getting something from it.
It isn't intelligence I'm talking about, it is having the 'head space' and 'emotion space' available to process it. Seems to me, a lot of 'well read' people are looking for bragging rights.
I've read a lot of books that went, Phew! Right over my head and I'm not stupid. I just read them too soon. Now I read what reflects what is going on in my life and in my head. Sometimes it's a classic, sometimes it's trash, but mostly it's somewhere in between. (But Man, I do love trash)
Man! I can't change a spelling error in the header! ARGHHHH!
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