Los riesgos de la lectura
Mi querido amigo Guillermo - Ojo Digital/Culazo Analógico - me envía el enlace a un MAGNÍFICO texto del NYT, escrito por Mark Edmundson [si no estáis registrados, hacedlo: es gratis], que resulta ser un magnífico adelanto al libro que publicará este mismo mes: 'Why read?'
De todo el texto, me quedo con el siguiente párrafo, que copipasteo y con el que me identifico y me delato:
Yet for many people, the process of socialization doesn't quite work. The values they acquire from all the well-meaning authorities don't fit them. And it is these people who often become obsessed readers. They don't read for information, and they don't read for beautiful escape. No, they read to remake themselves. They read to be socialized again, not into the ways of their city or village this time but into another world with different values. Such people want to revise, or even to displace, the influence their parents have had on them. They want to adopt values they perceive to be higher or perhaps just better suited to their natures.
Así es: leer nos sirve a algunos para enmendarle la plana a la vida, que se equivocó con nosotros.
