Reading too much…
“Sara would read anything you handed her…She read upon waking, sitting on the toilet, stretched out in the backseat of the car…If there was nothing else she would consume all the magazines and newspapers in the house—reading, to her, was a kind of pyromania—and when these ran out she would reach for insurance brochures, hotel prospectuses and product warranties, advertising circulars, sheets of coupon. Once I had come upon the spectacle of Sara, finished with the volume of C. P. Snow while only partway through on of the long baths she took for her bad back, desperately scanning the label on a bottle of Listerine.”
—Michael Chabon, “Wonder Boys”
I can relate.
This leads to the famous line in the movie: “She was a junkie for the
printed word. Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.”
April 22nd, 2007 at 4:33 am
[...] that our discussion on a crowded bus heading to Chinatown aboout the book she was reading and our mutual bad habit of reading the backs of cereal boxes and shampoo bottles marked the most memorable thing that happened to me that [...]
April 29th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
[...] me. What should he put down? I sit down as he muses on what to type in for his badge. I continue my bad habit of reading anything in front of me when I’m bored, which happens to be an issue of the San Jose [...]
February 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am
[...] love the printed word. I have an Amazon Prime membership. I think there is a great future in [...]
February 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
[...] still alive, a bunch of us were trying to decide on a movie, when my brother pointed that he had recently read a movie review calling some movie a “triumph of the human [...]
June 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
[...] The last Cody’s Books is closing. Years ago, I would go to one on Telegraph when visiting my brother, who reads even more than me. [...]
June 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
[...] No, I don’t like to read. Reading for elitist liberal [...]