This blog post was triggered by something I read in the newspaper. Here’s the online version http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1065994. I almost always read newspapers and magazines back to front, from the last page to the first! This ritual probably originated from the time I first started reading papers. At that time (single digit age), the only thing in the newspaper that interested me were the comics. I remember ‘Mid-day’ having the comics two pages from the end, so it was natural & easier to go to it from the end. Later as I got interested in sports, I would read those pages and they were right after the comics at the end. From then on I hardly ever remember reading the newspaper the ‘right’ way. This quirk leads to missing out certain experiences, like reading the April fool’s gotcha note before reading the planted stories. Teaser ads are also lost on me, because I come across the final ad of the series before the teasers and I wonder what the fuss was all about. The only stuff I don’t miss are all the political & other such depressing news on the front pages. What about you? How do you read your newspaper?
(As an aside, this had me questioning if all my thoughts were always triggered by some other event- don’t I ever have an original thought? am I just a “moist robot” with no free will? care for a philosophical mind twister? Read http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/11/the_little_robo.html )
