Rain threatens outside the Christian coffee shop. It’s a hip Christian coffee shop\u2014Aerosmith is playing.<\/p>\n
Three college students sip fancy drinks and discuss their recent failures in class. <\/p>\n
World Series highlights play silently on television. Baseball seems to be dying before our eyes. Computers are murdering it, making it inhumane. As a kid, I never much liked playing it. Too static. Too much standing around. <\/p>\n
The shop has a set of World Books, the sort of Google of its day. Every family owned a set and every kid used it for school reports. My mom still displays the red-colored set from my youth. It’s so old that Robert F. Kennedy isn’t even dead. <\/p>\n
A few tables away, a female pastor counsels a female parishioner. She uses her phone to read soothing scriptures.<\/p>\n
A novel was recently published. It’s about how nobody reads anymore and everyone plays video games. It will be a novel nobody reads because its intended readership doesn’t read\u2014it plays video games. <\/p>\n
Rain is picking up. I long for a cozy place to read a World Book encyclopedia at random and learn something old. In my next home, I want a set from the 1970s. I want Nixon out of office and the Democrats in control of all three branches of government. They used to be able to do that. <\/p>\n\n
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