There are more books to contemplate than stars in a night on the high seas. In this immensity, how is a reader to find his personal constellation, those books that will put his life in communication with the universe?
--Gabriel Zaid
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
That's so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteReaders may need to have a certain amount of read-ar to help them in this regard.
ReplyDeleteI often find that books lead me to other books . . . if I'm paying attention and if I'm willing to trust the library angels or the gods of literature or perhaps the spirit of Jane Austen . . .
ReplyDeleteI love this and am making a note of it. Thank you.
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