text:  "Wherefore do we maintain you and those like you if it is not to do for us what we hold it beneath our dignity to do for ourselves? And is not the reading of books beneath our dignity? Do not all books contain the ideas and notions of a pack of scoundrels who talk about things which they do not understand and that in no wise concern them? Have we not decreed that the bowstring should be the portion of all those who are reported to be either writers or readers of books? And have we not therefore taken into our service a parcel of idlers of whom thou art the chief and whose duty it is to read and think for the whole of our people?" "And why should the Light of the World read?" replied the mollah after a respectful pause