The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
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The Reader’s Quest. How literature helps us find meaning and understand the world.
Over the next three decades, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for any notion in the library. We’ll come to understand that no work
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My reading habit is driven by an intense longing to live well. To expand my mind, broaden my understanding of the world, enrich the act of living, and draw closer to the essence of what it means to be human. To develop a meaningful philosophy of life. To better serve others. It's a pursuit of genuine wisdom by becoming more deeply aware of the grea... See more
“Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself. But each map was incomplete, and I would only locate the treasure if I read all the books, and so the process of finding my best self was an endless quest. And books themselves seemed to reflect thi
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