Snagged from a book, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, that I'm reading,
'We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.'
-Vladimir Nabokov_Pale Fire
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and for everyone, but most especially for
spike7451
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'We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.'
-Vladimir Nabokov_Pale Fire
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and for everyone, but most especially for
spike7451***
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Completely agree!
Hahaha - I thought of our friend too when I saw that pic. You beat me in posting it for her. :D
Ya gottta be quick around here, she said, as she blew the smoke away from the barrel of her six-shooter :)
What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read?
... what a horrible thought.
*agrees*
Yes, yes, yes.