QotD
"Anybody who reads a lot is, if you like, an addict. The
people who put their initials on the fly-leaf of a library copy
of a mystery so that they won't keep checking the same book out
over and over are story addicts. So is the ten-year-old with his
nose in The Hobbit, oblivious to dinnertime or cataclysm.
So is the old woman rereading War and Peace for the eighth
time. So is the scholar who studies the Odyssey for forty
years. The very quality of story is to hold, to fascinate. Ask
the Wedding Guest to stop listening once the Ancient Mariner gets
going. He can't. He's hooked. Sometimes you get hooked on mere
plot, sometimes on mere familiarity and predictability, sometimes
you get hooked on great stuff." --
Ursula K.
Le Guin, at Book View Café,
2012-06-18 And here's an unrelated but very relevant
comic
strip.
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