i read fiction... and WHAT

its so fucking cold in the office i get annoyed about it. its slow at work. i am trying to read this book for the next book club discussion, "we are not what we seem" and i cannot focus. its making me feel not smart, that i cant focus on it maybe because its not fiction? i dont think ive ever read a non fiction book all the way through. read a lot in college, but always only the assigned pages, and even then you could toss a coin on my doing that, b/c if you take good notes, you dont need to read nathin.'

i got in an arguement with some dumb fuc once, who said something like, "fiction is a waste of time and kills your brain cells." and this was coming from a musician?! one of the white drummers with the african dance group i used to preform with. yes, white. i was the only black member of the group at the time. fucking san diego... i asked him if only one form of art (music)has validity, i suppose? i argued that certainly there is fiction thats crap but fiction can teach us about the context of the time, social issues, political stance, what about literature like toni morrison, i asked?... he says, "never even heard of the guy." i stopped argueing...