Oh dear...

While reading Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman) today I came across this quote that I liked, so I paused to put it in my quote book.

"To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community."

Returning to the book, I read this in the very next paragraph:

"...A good reader does not cheer an apt sentence or pause to applaud even an inspired paragraph."



[Edit - Moody Broadcasting is doing an online Book Club feature of this book, the link is here.]