And now to terminate this shit
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That awkward social moment where you’re at a loud party trying to talk on your cell phone and you can’t hear anything because the music and the people are so loud so you decide to yell at the top of your lungs and just as you do the music stops and EVERYBODY in the house hears you yell, “I know! I know! Well, what I’m gonna do is I’m having my testicles laminated!”
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
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| — | Carl Sagan (via tinybrambles) |
