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How many of us are what Aldous Huxley called "reading
addicts" is less easy to determine. Huxley wrote:
We read, most of the time, ... because reading is one of our bad habits, because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void. Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will ...
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Sep 03, 2022 06:25PM

...fall back on cookery books, on the literature that is wrapped round 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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