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“My wife says books aren’t real.”
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play God to it.But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes truth and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason.
— Sep 12, 2025 04:45PM
“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play God to it.But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes truth and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason.
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