To willingly surrender such pleasure is a form of madness
AwesomeBlogs.com points out that Victoria Beckham has been quoted as saying, “I haven’t read a book in my life.” Do people like that actually exist?!
How anyone can go through life without reading a single book is beyond me. If you’re illiterate or have a reading disability, that’s a different matter, but why would anyone who can read choose not to do so? Even the blind read, and would give a lot to be able to see the words printed in black type across the page - words that hold mysteries and have the power to transport their reader to extraordinary worlds and divergent universes.
It has never ceased to amaze me that such a meagre sum of letters - only 26 - can come together in so many strange and wonderful incarnations, each incarnation holding a wealth of meaning. When I glimpse a printed page for the first time, whether it is a newspaper, magazine, book, brochure, pamphlet, poster, or even just the back of a cereal box, I’m filled with anticipation and an inescapable longing to know what is contained in those words, standing out in relief for all the world to see. It is as if the words on the page are welcoming me, holding out their arms, eager to share their secrets and mysteries with me.
If one can have a love affair with an inanimate object, moreso with one that is intangible, then I have a love affair with words. I find it incomprehensible that others can pass them by and remain impervious to their lure, blind to the wonder and insensible to the delights that can be unleashed by the simple act of reading.
amidst all that purple prose, one has to ask: how can anyone surrender something he or she doesn’t have?
Comment by hectorine — August 17, 2005 @ 8:16 pm
If a person can have something but relinquishes his/her right to that thing, isn’t that called surrendering?
As for the purple prose remark: heh, I totally deserved that.
Comment by Scribbler — August 17, 2005 @ 9:11 pm
I have the right to get fucked in the ass, but I have not had the pleasure of getting fucked in the ass, so I can’t exactly surrender that pleasure can I?
And lots of people have told me its a damn shame I haven’t been on the receiving end of anal sex, but for some reason, like Mrs Beckham and books, I have no problems if the twain should never meet
Comment by hectorine — August 17, 2005 @ 9:28 pm
You could have it, but you don’t want it, therefore you’ve surrendered the opportunity to have it. Semantics?
Comment by Scribbler — August 17, 2005 @ 11:23 pm
I learned how to read cuz mom read to me as a little baby boy and then I got into reading comics, and you have to learn how to really read to read all that smart mutant stuff.
I like to read, i just don’t do enough of it. I used to have a girlfriend i’d read the X-men to in bed. She got to the point where as soon as the new issue came out i had ta read it to her.
Man that was fun.
Comment by MB — August 18, 2005 @ 1:52 am
I believe Vic Beckham does read. How ever can she resist fashion and women’s mags and all that chick lit?!
Comment by The Suffragette — August 18, 2005 @ 2:00 pm
surrendered the opportunity, not the pleasure (which I would not have until I have grasped the opportunity). and this is assuming it is a pleasure to everyone, as you believe so.
Comment by hectorine — August 18, 2005 @ 3:39 pm
I don’t understand people who don’t read. I don’t understand people who enjoy cleaning. I’ve had to learn we don’t all have the same desires and it isn’t right for me to project my desires onto others. It isn’t easy.
Comment by kevin — August 20, 2005 @ 11:00 am
I like to read and clean. In fact, I often read while cleaning. There is such fascinating information on the backs of cleaning fluid bottles!
Comment by MB — August 20, 2005 @ 9:42 pm