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, maybe somebody dead
for thousands of years.
Across the millennia, 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.