Reflections

Eats Shoots and Leaves is a hoot. A funny bewailing of the lack of attention to punctuation. The author does not really divide it this way, but there is the punctuation lapses that really confuses ordinary communication, and there is the fussier stuff that I think 95% of English-writing people do not really understand. She addresses both. I never completely understood the use of colons or semicolons and I think my writing skills are pretty decent. Well, it was fun in a dry, witty way.

In The Seekers, Boorstin remarks on how Socrates and Plato deplored the written word. The dynamics of the spoken word, they claimed, is the true source of knowledge. I assume they meant the exchange of ideas, rather than a one-way bucket-into-brain transfer. What would they think of art, of any our media today??