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MARK LATHAM'S recommendation that we read aloud to children is too specific and limited. The world would be a better place if adults read aloud to one another. Of course, this is a view of the world seen through the prism of my own predilections, but experience has taught me that this enables the world to present some of its most attractive features.
I have been reading aloud to my wife, the former Jacqueline Magee, of Kulin, Western Australia--she deserves formal introduction as compensation for being thrust peremptorily on stage--for well over forty years. I always read and she always listens. Machismo has nothing to do with it. Reading aloud is a performance ...