Why use highlighter? Why? Why cover the page in garish color, smearing crookedly the lines of text, painting them orange, yellow, purple? Yes, purple. They make purple highlighter.
Why, when using highlighter, must we highlight So Much of the text? Why do we highlight Nearly Every Line, so that, in reading, one’s eye is drawn to the few UN-highlighted lines remaining on the page?
Why don’t we use, discreetly, a pencil, and neatly underline the important things? Or, better yet, use the pencil to Even More Discreetly put brackets around the significant passages? You can still find the important things this way, I promise you, without so heinously Marring The Page.
Why can’t everyone see that a printed page, even a printed page of Nonfiction, is a thing of beauty that should be treated gently, with respect, and not bloodied with the fat end of a fluorescent marker?
And Why– do tell– have I not learned to Look Inside the used texts I purchase at the Duke textbook store Before I Buy Them, thereby sparing myself this assault on my eyes?
