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148 LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE
Figure 9.4 Drawing and writing: ‘frogs born’
However, the real work of ‘reading’ lies somewhere else. For a start, it rests on
the assumption that readers take the whole enterprise seriously, that they see this
practice as a perfectly usual part of their life-world. But specifically it rests on
the readers’ willingness and ability to select aspects of their lives as being
relevantly attachable to each of the brief accounts or predictions. So a reader
whose sunsign is Capricorn will need to interpret larger or smaller aspects of her
