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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”-Jorge Luis Borges
Borges’s relationship with books was, of course, intimate. Perhaps more intimate that we would ever allow our own imaginations to consider. We are nevertheless drawn to these forms—these things that open, unfold, unfurl, unroll, and reveal—in ways and at depths we are rarely conscious of. This may be because books have become seamlessly integrated into the mental fabric of our human environment—they are environments, and as Marshall Mc Luhan observed, “Environments are invisible.” The advantage of this is that we need not bend our thoughts to the book in order to reap its benefits; the disadvantage is that we are tragically unaware of its effects. We do not recognize that the book itself, not just the contents, has something to say to us. It might as well be speaking to us from another dimension, and we are sadly, and even pathetically, the poorer for it

My boss talks about books like this all the time.
It is infectious. (via wifwolf)

Source: wifwolf