Revealed: Books Will RIP
Do people read anymore? I know many never did, but do the press, the intelligentsia, the “elite,” read books any more? I do not plough through books voraciously, and am probably as guilty as anyone in relying on the internet’s constantly updated version of events to form my world view, but one, simple example proves that those who claim to be informed rarely, if ever, read books.
Barack Obama has been on the front pages for
read onHarlem, Obama.
The drums, if one listened hard enough, had fallen silent. Barack Obama appeared on the big screen, poised, as ever, and ready to deliver the speech that this crowd in Harlem had thought could never come. It was appropriate that Obama had been scaled up, his massive, campaign scarred visage yielding reluctantly to that smile.
“This is great,” a man tried to explain to his young son as he bounced with excitement, Obama badges proudly jiggling
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