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Oh. My. Gosh.

Dorothy Sayers claimed that when we read a work of literature, "it is as though a light were turned on us. We say, 'Ah! I recognise that!'... I can possess and take hold of it and make it my own, and turn it into a source of knowledge and strength."

Literature is a triumph of the imagination.
-Joseph Addison

I enjoyed this chapter especially. I recognize the joys of literature in my own life.

When working in bookstores, he sees browsers who display "a need to keep getting back to" the reading state, which "they know and... seek." What they want, concludes Birkerts, "is a vehicle that will bear them off to the reading state."