Literature and Text Messages Mate; Mutant Offsping Runs Rampant

This little gem, I think, irritates quite a few people, who, like me, love literature.

I can understand why it does, but I don't share the reaction. I think that, in the end, it's more useful to let people, and students in particular, fall off of the literary wagon when they choose to.

You either appreciate something for what it is, whether it's sports, or philosophy or literature, or you don't.

If someone doesn't, you can't make them, no matter how much you might want to.

And nothing kills the pleasure of reading good literature more than being forced to read it when you have absolutely no desire whatsoever to do so.

So, bring on the text messages. They'll find the people they're meant to find.

And that can't be an entirely bad thing.