"I think Bobo's an educated man, yeah." Foggy drums his fingers on the table. "I'm not saying you should have, back in your time, reading wasn't as important. But here, reading would help a lot."

And a thought is tickling at the back of his head. Matt needs something to do. If Foggy can teach Joshua letters... "Tell you what. I'm going to work with you to teach you letters. And once you've got letter down, I have a blind friend who keeps lamenting a lack of anything he can do. If you can read letters and some words, he can help you with spelling and reading longer words, even if he can't see the words himself."