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To: Monkey Face

I hope you never run out of reading material.

I know I never will, 'cause that reading assignment I was given in fifth grade is still incomplete.


2,325 posted on 11/07/2005 3:43:45 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If I were not a husband and father, I might be wealthier, but I wouldn't be richer.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face

Yours was fifth-grade? Well, ya got me beat. I managed to keep up all the way until I hit my "World Literature" class in High School. I never did get through "Wuthering Heights". Reading Bronte's work was as mentally laborious as physically wading across a neck-deep lake of peanut butter the breadth of Lake Michigan. Before "Wuthering Heights" I'd never read a work where the author took more than a page to describe a character. Feh! Bronte can burn up that much real estate on just a person's nose, nevermind the rest of their face and overall demeanor.


2,328 posted on 11/07/2005 3:56:42 PM PST by HKMk23 (FOR SALE: French Army standard issue infantry rifles. Dropped once. Never fired.)
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To: NicknamedBob

"...I know I never will, 'cause that reading assignment I was given in fifth grade is still incomplete."

By the fourth grade, we (my sister and I) had read all the books in the junior library and were working on the "adult" section. Of course, anything with profanity was never allowed...still, by 6th grade, we were buying paperbacks because we were so hungry for things to read.

Even the school libraries were well used...dunno...seems I've had a book in front of my face since I was three...


2,329 posted on 11/07/2005 3:56:49 PM PST by Monkey Face (Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?)
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