If they can have Book-O-Mania or whatever it is on C-SPAN, so can I. Besides, now that Don Imus is busy making his crawl in sackcloth and ashes to Canterbury Cathedral, I don't think books are mentioned anywhere else on TV, except when it's absolutely unavoidable.
Today, something short: E.M. Forster's The Celestial Omnibus. This is no fairy tale; it is absolutely true, and absolutely necessary for anyone who plans on maturing into a proper adult to take with deadly seriousness. I believe that the child is born, and the imagination, given proper stimuli, develops as a matter of course in any normal person. Lacking those stimuli (...and TV, quite specifically, qualifies as a "lack"), it will wither and die in adulthood, and that person becomes, at very best, pathetic.
There you are; a review of a short story, short and to the point.....
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