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"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time... In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."

"31. "Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we a in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding." -Milan Kundera, Book of Lang ter and Forgetting, 1980.

"I don't mind thinking of the world without me because I'm unexceptional. but I hate the idea of the world without old Jiko. She's totally unique and spe-cial, like the last Galapagos tortoise or some other ancient animal hobbling around on the scorched earth, who is the only one left of its kind."

"Ruth looked more closely at the letters. They were round and a little bit sloppy (as she now imagined the girl must be, too), but they stood more or less upright and marched gamely across the page at a good clip, not in a hurry, but not dawdling, either. Sometimes at the end of a line, they crowded cach other a little, like people jostling to get onto an elevator or into a subway car, just as the doors were closing"

"Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanic transaction with the reader's eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, ant is as intimate as skin."

"Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanic transaction with the reader's eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, ant is as intimate as skin."