society accepts book a given, act reading — considered useful importa — Alberto Manguel, Library Night

Alberto Manguel The Library at Night

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Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading — once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive — is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

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