The Swiss linguist and thinker Ferdinand de Saussure describes language as a form of treasure that is shared with others when we speak. Treasure is also something that can be hoarded. If you keep all the good words – the rich, descriptive, wild long words – to yourself then you retain their high value. Share them with the masses and you end up ... with the linguistic means to create a society of equals, which is exactly what the hoarders of social and cultural capital don't want.
...the benefits of reading in company as described by one woman: "Doctors and stuff aren't always what you need. Other people can help too.
"The accumulated experience of peers and equals, all of whom have been in the same boat at one point or other, is shared to the benefit of everyone. It's hard to think of a more powerful, not to mention empowering, sentiment."
More: http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/01/reading-fiction-friends-therapeutic
SpyWriter Jack King, the author of:
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