“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny…”

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny …the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s.

Sven Birkerts, writer

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