What the world needs now: more reading
All around the world, it seems, people need to step up their reading habits:
To cultivate a love of reading among Russian city dwellers, a Reading Moscow Train painted with portraits of characters and excerpts from classical literature will start running in May. Train carriages will also carry booklets featuring the latest books and magazines.
To foster a culture of reading in Ghana, one media consultant is urging the government to make reading a compulsory subject in school and wants every district to have a library and community book club. Accra newspaper Public Agenda reports that the consultant considers a lack of reading culture in Ghana to be a stumbling block for the country’s future.
And a recent study in the U.S. concluded that America’s literacy is in decline and that this will have “severe consequences for American society.” The report by the National Endowment for the Arts suggests people who read on a regular basis have better health, are politically engaged, and earn more money.
In regards to the report by the National Endowment for the Arts, which suggests that “people who read on a regular basis have better health, are politically engaged, and earn more money”, the Ministry of Words, Sports and Tourism would like to remind its constituents that people who engage in liturature activities on a regular basis also have better, fuller, longer-lasting sex with sexual partners far more attractive and firm than television-fed (both conventional practice, certified organic or free-range) individuals…
…and that’s a fact.
I, the Minister of Words, Sports and Tourism for the Best Place on Planet Globe, guarantee it! (accurate to +/- two percentage points)
(Testimonials and guarantees courtesy of the Office of Studies at the Ministry of Propaganda and Information.)
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The peasants must read. They must grow wise. Then they can fuck and have intelligent, honourable children. Maybe write books themselves with tiles like The Lucifer Effect or Straight from the Heart. And maybe publish with a good Random House imprint like M&S. Oops now I’ve done it. I’m certain to get a letter of condemnation from the Random Politburo reminding me what an ignorant little twat I am for suggesting M&S is a ward of the state. Let the lines be clear –Germany has no interest in Poland. Poland has its own system of government run by good Germans who are not really there.