Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like … - Harper Lee

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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

Harper Lee

Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

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