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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."
— Nov 05, 2025 08:32AM
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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.
— Nov 05, 2025 09:01AM
Literature is a triumph of the imagination.
-Joseph Addison
I enjoyed this chapter especially. I recognize the joys of literature in my own life.
