![]() ![]() It only takes one fourth-rate translation of Crime and Punishment to make you foreswear the written word in favor of the videogame console. ![]() I am speaking, of course, about school, and in particular, about a succession of uninspired English teachers foisting uninspired syllabi upon their disinterested students. The Book of Revelations 14:19 (King James Version)įor as long as I can recall, I have loved reading. “And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God…” Tom Joad in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the house they build, I’ll be there too…” I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. Wherever you can look – wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. ![]()
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