I am afraid that I have succumbed to the temptation that W.H. Auden suggests here is the consequence of easily accessible books. I primarily blame The Friends of the Library Bookstore for this, due to their incredibly cheap books and convenient location.
“We are all of us tempted to read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music than we can possibly absorb, and the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind than yesterday’s newspaper.”
Citation: <http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/44495998930/again-while-it-is-a-great-blessing-that-a-man-no. Accessed 3/7/13> from W. H. Auden, Secondary Worlds (1967).
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