>Bob Henderson schreef:

>> There have been no discussions on this list whether one should
>> read a book starting at the beginning and reading sequentially to the end
>> rather than starting from the last page and reading backwards to the
>> beginning i.e. some things we take for granted and because we have no
doubts
>> about their veracity, we do not discuss them;

S.V. van Baardwijk-Holten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:

>Well Arabs might disagree with you here. I wonder, except for Arabic and
some of
>the orientals are there any other cultures that read in another direction
as us?
>Hebrew? Or are there even cultures that read from the bottom up or
something
>like that?  I'm not sure there are.

I have to disagree.  I'm sure that everyone reads their books from beginning
to end.
The actual physical location of beginning and end will vary, but readers
usually 
start at the beginning and read through to the end.

Jean-Louis Couturier

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