Happily, I do not own nor do I intend to purchase or accept as a gift, the two monstrosities of modern publishing - The Potter franchise and that “Code” book. *shudder* While cataloging my library over at LibraryThing.com this lazy Sunday afternoon, I finally noticed how few bibliophiles are complicit in these two particularly distasteful [...]
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To argue for silence, prayer, the banishment equally of poetry and knowledge, in short, the witness of ‘ineffability,’ [. . .] is to mystify something we dare not understand, because we fear that it may be all too understandable, all too continuous with what we are—human, all too human
— Gillian Rose-
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