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It wasn’t that he was illiterate, but Fred Colon did need a bit of a think and a run-up to tackle anything much longer than a list and he tended to get lost in any word that had more than three syllables. He was, in fact, functionally literate. That is, he thought of reading and writing like he thought about boots - you needed them, but they weren’t supposed to be fun, and you got suspicious about people who got a kick out of them. ”
—(From The Fifth Elephant (1999))
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