Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definitely. Yeah. I'll be in the trailer, and they'll wake me up and say, "Read these words." I'm also a heroin addict. Just 'cause it's cool...
Seven or eight weeks before, I'd read in the Washington Post that on a single autumn Monday, 2,500 homing pigeons, competing in two completely different races in Virginia and Pennsylvania, had vanished into--well, into thin air. Some people, it almost goes without saying, blamed El Nino. Some people speculated that cellular phone activity had interfered with the electromagnetic fields that pigeons use to help them navigate. That theory led me to another theory: people who take great pleasure in shouting into their cellular phones as they walk down the street had finally shouted loudly enough to scare...
...never found out. I suppose the Post might have run a follow-up, but there's a lot of news competing for limited space these days. Also, even a news junkie can't read everything. More and more often, I find myself reading a disturbing story in the newspaper--for instance, a story in the New York Times headlined MUBARAK VISITS SYRIA IN EFFORT TO DEFUSE CRISIS WITH TURKEY--and then realizing weeks later that I have no idea how the story turned...
Willis Carrier, who read and sought out knowledge until his death at 73, married three times (twice a widower) and adopted two children, neither of whom survive. In classic American-businessman fashion, he was a Presbyterian, a Republican and a golfer...
...William Levitt, a man who just about never read a novel, turned out to be the author of an entire world...