Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for June 29, 2015
June 22, 2015
July 06, 2015
Transcript:
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. PUBLIC LIBRARY CHECKOUT Maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. LAO TZU Tao Te Ching THEODORE ROOSEVELT An Autobiography MARCUS ARELIUS Meditations SHAKESPEARE’S Comedies, Histories & Tragedies HELEN KELLER The Story Of My Life Across the millenia, 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. - Carl Sagan
ladykat almost 9 years ago
Books are such wonderful things. I know the trend now is towards e-readers, but for me, nothing can replace the feel of a book in my hands.
Scoutmaster77 almost 9 years ago
Fortunately, a new world is always waiting. :- )
Kind&Kinder almost 9 years ago
And because we can only read books through our own filters, it’s a different book at 50 than it was at 20. Rereading “Catcher in the Rye” later in life taught me a lot about perspective.Love books!
spaced man spliff almost 9 years ago
says Kind&Kinder about 2 hours ago
And because we can only read books through our own filters, it’s a different book at 50 than it was at 20. Rereading “Catcher in the Rye” later in life taught me a lot about perspective.Love books!-Some of my books (and films) I’ve read and seen several times. Its a reality-suspending ritual, and, like you say, an experience just a little different enough to be both familiar and novel at the same time.
mggreen almost 9 years ago
A quote from one of my favorite people on one of my favorite ’toon!
Jeff0811 almost 9 years ago
In the further words of Carl Sagan, “Billions and billions” of pages.
lemon868 almost 9 years ago
I am far more addicted to reading than to any other similar activity.. the net loses out to books quite often, and I don’t even own a tv.
Laynegg almost 9 years ago
And as usual others have said in a way better way than I exactly how I feel about books and reading. Thank you.
nawsa Premium Member almost 9 years ago
I wonder about these reports of people not reading. I hear of an about to be released book, go to the library hold list and find I’m #642. If they don’t read, why are they getting in my way?