Nice Lincoln Quote

[LincolnToddFan]

I have also read that Lincoln wrote “out loud” — he would whisper a word out loud as he wrote it.

Toia, I'm with you when it comes to listening to others read out loud. It drives me bonkers. It's like listening to someone talking on a cellphone and there's no way to escape!

Another pet peeve! One of my favorite haunts is the fabulous Art Deco Los Angeles Central Library. It's an enormous old building with very rare, historical old books. I like to go there to sink into the chairs and breathe the rarified air of old musty books on the shelves...and lately listen to people yakking it up on their cell phones as if they were in an Internet café. I think the attendants at L.A. Central are too intimidated or indifferent to stop them.

Soooo annoying!!!

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If there is anything that makes me go stark raving bonkers, it's having to listen to people read out loud...while I am trying to read or concentrate on something myself!!

If I understood it correctly, the "forced" audience was not supposed to read or do anything else than listening...
I personally cannot imagine the "silence" respectively "sound" monotony of those days without radio, TV, and access to music at every time (positively meant). I wonder how many people in those days have never had the chance to hear the sound of an orchestra.

Hi Eva,

That's a very sad thing to imagine, isn't it?