Quote of the Day | 0920
I own a lot of books—many that are not wonderful but that I have real affection for, the way one does a hometown. With books, as with cities, good and bad can sometimes seem beside the point. I can either live in a place or not. Take up residence in a book, even if just for the night, or leave. A million people may live in Dallas but I will never be one of them. Not because it isn’t a perfectly nice place in many ways, but because I feel no desire to get lost in it. If a book can’t disorient me just a little bit, if it can’t get me some kind of lost, I won’t stay with it for very long.
Peter Birkenhead, ‘Special Topics in Mindboggling Physics’
[x]#9248 fan dinsdag 20 september 2011 @ 21:22:27
simoncito op 27 september 2011 @ 11:00:47
“With books, as with cities, good and bad can sometimes seem beside the point.”
as with people, right?