"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -- Mark Twain
The ability to read is not a right, it's not a privilege -- it is a gift. Like the ability to sing or paint or handle alligators, reading opens doors that would otherwise stay closed. John G. Ramsay, in an article entitled "Hells bibliophiles", discusses the scourge of aliteracy in North America: "[Twain's] point is that aliteracy is a chosen form of illiteracy, and therefore borders on being a self-inflicted handicap--a radical rejection of literate and literary culture and the recorded wisdom of the ages." More.
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