books, lumps lifeless paper, minds alive shelves. goes voice… touch — Gilbert Highet, Immortal Profession

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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

Gilbert Highet, The Immortal Profession

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