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She wasn't oblivious to the fistfight, she was trying to ignore it. I did that once, there was a fight on a bus I was on, and I screwed myself into my seat and tried to concentrate on the book (Harlan Ellison's "Glass Teat", if you want to know). I looked up at one point to watch one of the combatants going backward out the doors with a knife in his gullet.

Posted by --MC | June 11, 2008 12:17 PM
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I've decided to wait a few more weeks, until my kid is all the way out of the womb, before I start reading the Iliad to him. Because I'm not one of those reading freaks.

Posted by elenchos | June 11, 2008 1:03 PM
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I walked head-on into many a lamppost while reading and walking in my younger days. Still do, but only for effect.

Favorite reader: Richard Harris in "This Sporting Life", who cradles a hopelessly thrashed pulp paperback throughout half the film, when he's not kicking his fellow rugby players in the nuts or shouting at the woman he loves. Wish I knew what the book was; it looked like a cheap crime novel. I loved the way he held it, like he was ripping it in half.

Posted by Fnarf | June 11, 2008 1:17 PM

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