Generations of schoolchildren have memorized "Paul Revere's Ride"; critics have barely read it.
Having barely read the terms and conditions, the couple sign the binding "commitment papers" and relocate to the town of Consilience, "because Charmaine has her heart set on it".
"But the campuses had been taken over by multiculturalism and this yahoo rejection of Western culture by a bunch of students who had barely read a book," she says.
I would have liked to buy some books, preferably a couple of collections of poetry because I had barely read a poem in my life, except for those we'd had at school, and first of all, I didn't remember any of them, and secondly, I had an inkling the kind of poems we would be analyzing at the Writing Academy would be different.
As much as I have differences with the contents of Islam's canonical texts, I know that most Muslims are good, peaceful people who have barely read the Quran and seldom follow it except for the occasional cherry-picking and hearsay, much like the adherents of any other religion.
This extension of sympathy to the Other has become increasingly marked in his work – most brilliantly and most troublingly perhaps in The Truth Commissioner, in his depiction of Francis Gilroy, the former thug and terrorist who becomes Minister for Culture, yet who has barely ever read a book, and who feels no real remorse for his crimes.
And he has apparently barely read the family Bible he uses as a campaign prop.
The Vacuum is an interesting read, but until now has barely made ripples, never mind waves.
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