In particular, fewer and fewer books are read, while the number of readers of periodicals, newspapers, reviews, manifests posted on wall and other printed material is fairly high. But the readers of the fleeting daily publications do not read: they see, they look. They look with comic-strip attention even when they really know how to read: they look and they throw away.
This passage from Armando Petrucci's essay in this week's reading is a 1961 quotation from Eugenio Montale. The fact that it was uttered an even fifty years ago intrigued me. What do you think? Has the situation changed? Why or why not? We'll write a short paragraph (or two) at the start of class today on this subject.
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