Challenged

On the train this morning, I found myself reading an ad for Best Buddies, "a nonprofit...organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities". My first thought, of course, was my friend from Bonn who doesn't like Mozart. (He prefers the music of von Suppé and Delius--Delius! Even Mahler, I could almost accept, but Delius?) Then there are all those people I know who bought a copy of Finnegan's Wake and never managed to get through any of it. And speaking of unread works, what about all those with copies of A brief history of time or The language instinct gathering dust on their shelves?

What will Best Buddies do for all of them? Alas, nothing!