Literacy

The ongoing debate about literacy drags its weary head above the depths again. I am not convinced there is a huge problem...but that is another issue.
And I shall no doubt come back to it as it is something of an hobby horse.
Amidst all that, in this month's edition of "The Monthly" Gideon Haigh, in his article "Beach Boy", writes a personal appreciation of Shane Warne on the eve of Warne's final, nerve-jangling Test match in England. [what a gem]

"When Warne arrived he asked what book I was perusing. I explained that it was an account of the hurricane that destroyed Galveston. Warne nodded. 'I read this book once,' he said. 'It was about UFOs.'"

At least he knows how to text...does that count as literacy?