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Today's commute read: Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman. A book about a person who loves books https://t.co/PqRJcHOCQc
"There is a certain kind of child who awakens from a book as from an abyssal sleep, swimming heavily up through layers of consciousness toward a reality that seems less real than the dream-state that was left behind. I was such a child." ā¤
"How curious it is that books are so often written about as if they were toasters. Is this brand of toaster better than that brand of toaster? At $24.95, is this toaster a best buy? There's nothing about how I may feel about my toaster ten years hence, about tender feelings..."
"When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives ā nationalism, religion, ethnicity ā it seems to me that a 35-pound bag of rocks, and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for." https://t.co/YIuHl6xxpg