A Modest Proposal
by Araceli Pedraza
There is a terrible problem going on within our growing society of intellectuals, the abusers of books, or cool kids . People who fold the pages, tear them out, or those who fold back the books, breaking the binding, its precious spine, for more 'comfortable' reading. Even those who claim that books are dumb, too long, or a waste of time, it simply makes that person look uneducated and seem way to obnoxious.
My proposal, to decrease the ever growing population of book abusers, is to remove the eyes of such humans. Removing the eyes of those who ruin the reading experience of others, 1those who claim that books are dumb then see how much reading is actually important, and when reading books that’s
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been spoiled. The first warning, abusers will be temporarily blinded, chemically, with numbing, just to be cautioned and warned about the infractions they are committing.
The second warning involves the removal of an eye, and the final consequence is the removal of the second eye.
Although, those who do receive the final consequence, could learn Braille, for what reason, I don’t know. Another option is to listen to someone read to them, 2if they finally realize that reading a book that hasn’t been ruined is actually fun. The rest who don’t care, will carry on, living their life as a blind, book abuser. 3Those who ruin books, ruin more than a hundred and fifty books a year. 4This is not counting magazines, articles, documents, and short stories. A hundred and fifty books, 5 6not counting those long messages and emails nobody cares about.
As those who don’t treat books right are removed, or excluded, there will be less uneducated people in society, creating a smarter group of people, and the books will be in way better condition, libraries would return to their clean, and beautiful state. The amount of spoilers would decrease immensely. 7Why have eyes if not to
read? My past proposals have been turned down, seeming not enough to stop these people from hurting any more books. Banning the abusers from reading books, or labeling them as book abusers by hanging sign around their necks, even forcing them to the walk of shame. To avoid the wrath of librarians, treat books better, don’t spoil the endings, and for God’s sake don’t write in the book. Many will read this and recommend it to others who agree to my proposal, and some will crumble this up and throw it in the trash, those same people who claim that books aren’t important to learning.8 Books are useless, they only contain all of human history, and possible future, it’s not like they are important.
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