Great Regulars: "What's wrong with reading?"

she [Mikita Brottman] asks. " . . . Nothing, of course. But once you assign an intellectual value to the act, you not only overlook the nature of the text itself, you also make universal and one-dimensional what is essentially a private process of engagement." In other words, you dilute the emotional power of the word, of language, by framing reading as a moral virtue.

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: 'The Solitary Vice' by Mikita Brottman

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