Sublime

In both oral and typographic cultures, information derives its importance from the possibilities of action.

He was, in other words, the library’s memory and the soul of the scriptorium.

“Or in the eyes. God perceived as light, in the rays of the sun, the images of mirrors, the diffusion of colors over the parts of ordered matter, in the reflections of daylight on wet leaves

A book is an attempt to make thought permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.

For it is a tale of books, not of everyday worries,

a Swiss novelist once quipped, that ‘News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.’30

omnis moritur.

believe in the invisible hand of the data flow.

under conditions of scarcity. They become authoritative. A century ago, a scholar wishing to study the topics