The value of reading

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  1. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  2. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    You know, Dr. Bear once said that people who read high brow books/watch geek tv will fare better with PLA credit than people who read comic books/watch cartoons. However, I just had to point out that if you're going to go to Union Institute for a PhD in Political Science and want to write up a dissertation on the use of comic books and cartoons in the political socialization of children, then you will need to read some comic books/watch some cartoons ... lots of them for your degree. One of my undergrad professors, the now late Dr. Paul A. O'Lowdenschlager (BA, St. Johns; MA, University of Dallas; PhD, University of Illinois) once suggested that David Banner, the mild-mannered nuclear engineer, who turns into the Incredible Hulk when he gets very angry, represents the good old USA who is the gentle/sleeping giant who is willing to go to war to protect little countries from those evil commies. When I wrote a post very much like this one way back when I was still a newbie (yes, I really was a newbie once), some idiot accused me of dissing Dr. Bear. Not!
     
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  3. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  4. airtorn

    airtorn Moderator

    Roses are red.
    Violets are blue.
    I've read a poem.
    Now you have, too.
     
  5. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Take me down to hai-
    ku city, where the grass is
    green and the... dammit
     
  6. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    Thanks guys. My new exposure to poetry has been wonderful.:indifferent:
     
  7. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Okay, fine.

    The Fly by William Blake

    Little Fly
    Thy summer's play,
    My thoughtless hand
    Has brush'd away.

    Am not I
    A fly like thee?
    Or art not thou
    A man like me?

    For I dance
    And drink & sing;
    Till some blind hand
    Shall brush my wing.

    If thought is life
    And strength & breath;
    And the want
    Of thought is death;

    Then am I
    A happy fly,
    If I live,
    Or if I die.
     
  8. RacerBoy

    RacerBoy New Member

    Currently reading Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore.
     
  9. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Maniac Craniac sat on a brainiac,
    Drinking his protein whey.
    The cops shouted "HALT!"
    Charged him with assault,
    In jail he remains to this day.

    What was this thread about again?
     
  10. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I'm well known as the guy who walks around around neighborhood parks with his eyes glued to a book. I call it "readercising". Working both the brain and body simultaneously :)
     
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  11. perrymk

    perrymk Member

    My dad taught m this poem when I was a mere puppy.

    Roses are red
    violets are blue
    some poems rhyme
    some don't
     
  12. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Well, I'm trying to give Johan Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages a good re-read. Next up: Jim McPherson's This Mighty Scourge.
     

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