Bob, that was incredible. ~Nick David Wright http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/
----- Original Message ---- > From: Bob W <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:39:04 PM > Subject: RE: on paper (was: Re: Our Book and other book pictures) > > I agree. There are more pleasures in reading than just reading. The > physicality of the book is important. The smell of a new book, the > progressive degradation of the spine as you read it. The ability to scribble > on it. Books, as the saying goes, furnish a room. Babies can pick books up > and read them upside down, and suck them without electrocuting themselves. > Pages rustle and twist and turn. High quality paper feels good in the hand. > The weight of a well-made book is like the weight of a good camera - it's > balanced and it exhudes quality. Books need shops to sell them. You can into > the shop and browse, and meet like-minded people. You can look at a girl and > know from the books she's browsing whether she's got a brain or a vacuum > between her ears. You can pick people up in bookshops. You can go into a > French bookshop in London and be greeted in French, and be in France for > half an hour while you browse and eavesdrop. You can go into the library in > the British Council in Addis Ababa and be in England for 30 minutes' respite > in the cool. Tyrants can burn books. Democrats can spot tyrants by their > book-burning habits. A child will never be able to teach herself to read > from a machine - she needs a book. Marcel Pagnol taught himself to read, but > his mother wouldn't let him have any books until he was 6 years old, 'for > fear of a cerebral explosion'. Books free everybody. How would a public > library system work without books? Free public libraries are one of the > crowning achievements of civilisation, asking nothing of their patrons other > than the ability to read quietly. No IT skills, no costly machines or plugs > or wires or blue screens of death. Having a Kindle is like having your own > CD player. Having a book is like having your own orchestra. > > Bob > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
