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As I cannot sleep right now - my subconscious is sorting out some things for me - I ended up in a rather peculiar discussion. It was as if I was arguing with myself 15 years younger.

I communicated some stuff about something - this is purposefully generic - and the response I got included the wonderful phrase, "I have read many books..."

Manuel Marino posted a troublesome piece for me - a piece about reading - or lack of it. He's quoting an article by Isaac Marion who runs BurningBuilding.com while working various jobs until his writing/music/art career take off.

I know that feeling.

But the article itself is worth the read - for those of you that do read, and it made me think of the journey of reading. These days, the 'semantic web' and search engines are the glory of the internet - but they are, I think, a hollow glory. It has been my experience that the most interesting things are found by accident - not on purpose. At first, they may not even be useful in a practical sense.