Reading Breeds Thought

"...he teaches communications 101, 'communications Skills' and Communications 201, 'Advanced Communications Skills'. Although he devotes hours of each day to his new discipline, he finds its first premise, as enunciated in the Communications 101 handbook, preposterous: 'Human society has created language in order that we may communicate our thoughts, feelings and intentions to each other.' His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origins of speech lie in song, and the origins of song lie in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul."
-from J.M Coetzee Disgrace

NPR also breeds thought about reading about media about reading, which breeds thought. Gotta remember to buy the books featured in my two favorite podcasts, On the Media and To the Best of OUr Knowledge. Something like "The Mindsnatchers," a history of TV, and Hamlet's Blackberry, a historical look at technological transitions. Adding them to the Books to Get List.

Will edit this, add hyperlinks and write more another time when I'm not reading disheartening literature while trying to go to sleep.