The danger of reading

[Proust illuminates](http://www.bookofjoe.com/2007/04/reading_becomes_1.html) the first part of [my media diet](http://www.ryskamp.org/brain/?p=3692) (creation/consumption balance) better than I did:

> “Reading becomes dangerous when instead of waking us to the personal life of the spirit it tends to substitute itself for it.”

([as mentioned before…](http://www.ryskamp.org/brain/?p=2630))