In our world, effectiveness is the main quality. I'm ok with it. I read to retrieve information from the web, and to know what others have to say. There is so much to understand to build a point of view. Complexity is the new paradigm, and time is survival, not pleasure.

The joy of reading beautiful texts is let to privileged ones, with time and skills. The beauty of art is adding unnecessary to the prosaic. This is what differentiates educated men who can raise above the masses. I was once one of them. Although I changed because the world is changing and I wanted to be part of it.
Still, I remember Belle du Seigneur, the most beautiful love story ever written, where near the end, a fifty-page sentence describe the heroine's path to madness.