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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2010-04-14 01:50 pm (UTC)And there's nothing wrong with that! I'm glad they enjoyed reading those books, and I'm glad they had the experience of having stories they encountered be something to discuss with their friends. Whether it's Harry Potter or Lost, that's a valuable experience.
And WORD on not being a traditional reader. Was it the National Council of Teachers of English a couple of years ago who did that survey on youth reading where they discounted anything read on the Internet as "reading"? Or anything assigned.