Quite so. I suppose I lament the idea that you can become a good writer whilst shortcutting reading a large corpus of good literature. There are many ancillary

Quite so. I suppose I lament the idea that you can become a good writer whilst shortcutting reading a large corpus of good literature. There are many ancillary benefits to reading good literature, and losing them makes education as formation that much harder. It's a much more important example of the phenomenon that children who are glued to phones or movies on long car trips instead of playing the license plate game are missing out on some implicit geographical education.