“It is easy enough in retrospect to see a book as a screen, a shield, an escape, but at the time there was just the magic – the startling and renewable discovery that a page covered with black markings could, with a slight mental exertion, be converted into an environment, an inward depth populated with characters and animated by diverse excitements.
A world inside the world, secret and concealable. A world that I could carry about as a private resonance, a daydream, even when I was not reading. A moveable feast.”
~ The Gutenberg Elegies, by Sven Birkerts
#grownostr #plebchain #nostr #quotes #reading #books #InternalLife #magic
Karmancer / Jeremy Steingraber
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