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Article: Road-testing the purpose-driven life: I'd miss the good old days, but they were before my time.(HUMOR)(getting more, or too much, out of your reading)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- December 1, 2004
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I'll never forget the day I read a book. It was contagious. Seventy pages. There were pictures here and there, so it wasn't hard to bear, the day ... I read a book.--Jimmy Durante
Who better to set the tone for our special issue on books than a 1950s-era singer who, unlike celebrities today, sang fully clothed. (Jimmy Durante's schnoz was bad enough, so you gotta figure the audience had absolutely no interest in seeing his navel.) Of course, if you've never heard of Jimmy Durante then you're obviously too young to have experienced classic American music, or the other joys we older people take for granted, such as shaving our ears.
But before I lapse ...