At Capacity
nytimes.com
At Capacity
Some paradoxes of modern life:
1. The paradox of reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read.
David Perellx.comUmberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. “To think,” Borges writes, “is to forget.”