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It’s What You’re Used To

Posted on 10/12/2011 by admin

My mother loved books and I grew up with books everywhere. Unlike my mother though I also grew up with television though when she thought I was watching too much of it she got rid of it. I remember reading the introduction to the Narnia series by C S Lewis and his saying his house was so piled with books they lined the stairs and he read and read.

The first people who used photographs were very quick off the mark to see this is a new art form and the same goes for those in the film industry. I have heard people say that they have seen films which changed their lives and I know a book or two that changed mine because it changed my thinking. No film has ever come close and those ‘realistic’ films that make you think always come in a  close second to the books I have read on the same subject.

But that does not mean films are secondary to books, just that they don’t impact on me as much as books because I had more books that films around when my mind was forming.  Today’s children will have more e-books and films around and they will find in them the ideas that change their world and leave behind the feel of a solid book in their hands and bookshelves lining their walls.

Doesn’t make the ideas any less relevant or their minds are any less focused.

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