Friday, March 14, 2014

A World of Knowledge & Entertainment

 
 
"What an astonishing thing a book is.  It's a flat object made
 
from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted
 
lots of funny dark squiggles.  But one glance at it and
 
you're inside the mind of  another person, maybe
 
somebody dead for thousands of years.  Across the millennia,
 
an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head,
 
directly to you.  Writing is perhaps the greatest of human
 
inventions, binding together people who never knew each other,
 
citizens of distant epochs.  Books break the shackles  of time.  A book
 
 is proof that humans are capable of working magic." 
 
~Carl Sagan
 


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