“I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.” MindBelieveKindStillsBookIdeasReasonLiteratureSpeakLanguageGivenTechnologyWrittenReaderOffersIdealsMiracleBoundsEncountersHostVehicleElsewhereGiven UpWritten WordProfundity Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.” DoeIdeasMomentsLife IsReadingDestinyAliveDangerousSequenceExhilarating Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
