Aldous HuxleyDeprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
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In the late sixties, the journalist and writer George Steiner wrote a book called After Babel. In it, he argued that man’s view of the world was distorted by language. This idea was taken up by others in the eighties, notably the philosopher Martin Buber, who called it “the problem of other minds.” Language not only makes us think differently about ourselves and others, but also affects our view of ourselves as readers. If we do not read enough, we may feel starved for information.
We may feel that we are deprived of ideas, deprived of literature, deprived of reality, deprived of surprises. In other words, through reading we can turn ourselves into people whose lives are richer and fuller than those of other people.
Source: The Olive Tree
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