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Viliam_Bur comments on Good books for incoming college students? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: aarongertler 06 July 2014 01:21AM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 July 2014 11:05:10AM 1 point [-]

You can make him waste his time not only in conversation he enjoys with people whom he likes, but also in conversations with those he cares nothing about, on subjects that bore him.

Was this written after Facebook, or was it a prophecy?

Comment author: palladias 07 July 2014 02:54:53PM 0 points [-]

Published in 1942. Lewis is a good observer.