Felis

By the way, I scored 800/800 on the reading portion my SAT. Long ago.

And on the math portion I scored, “Are house cats supposed to sit for this test?” I think I knew how to do maybe one question on the math part and I’m pretty sure I got that one wrong too.

(Ob)Literate

College English majors can’t read.

That is incredibly sad. Obviously true as well. The depressing part is that Bleak House is not a particularly challenging text. Of the ~20,000 books or so I’ve read in my life, I’d say it’s in the bottom 30% of difficulty. I do remember that work, though, as I enjoyed it; I read that one over the summer after eighth grade in a couple of days even though it was as mentioned in the piece around a thousand pages long.

The truth is most people are mostly illiterate, even the “smart” people. And smartphones/social media have made it so much worse.

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