The Transformational Power of Books
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 t
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My favorite books give me a new type of X-ray vision. They teach me how to see new layers of the world I didn’t understand or even notice before.