"A
book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts
(still called 'leaves') imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One
glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone
dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is
speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together
people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books
break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic."
--Carl Sagan
--Carl Sagan
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