>I would sit peddle away on an exercycle and read
> > Smith! I reread _Theories of Surplus Value_ the same way during another
> > seige of depression.
>
>Wow, all bouts of depression should be so productive.
Nice to hear reading described as productive.
Once in Spain during intermission at a concert I was leaning against a wall reading one of those little pocket books Penguin puts out sometimes. A woman in her 80s told me I was going to heaven because god would see I didn't waste time.
Here you're more likely to hear that reading *is* a waste of time.