Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for July 22, 2024

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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