“Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.” IfsMenWorldMadeBookTalkingAlivePagesFleshSavedOccasionsThickMonumentJohnsonPortraitureEvery Occasion Book:Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is? Source: Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?
