…for whatever language my books speak, I speak to them in my own…
What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes or not, and even if we sincerely believe we remember the faithfully—is in truth no more than a few fragments afloat, like so many islands, #ENC600
Following Montaigne, we should perhaps use the term unread information rather than reading to characterize the unceasing sweep of our forgetfulness. This process involves both the disappearance and the blurring of references, and transforms books, often reduced to their titles—
A book has the potential power to displace all other books in the continuum, and is an object we can only discuss in imprecise terms. 📚#bookmonger#autodafe#ENC600
In the spirit of Halloween 🎃…let’s extract the mangled metal from the crusher plates, straighten the crumpled limbs, examine the remains of this gleaming 👹 monster—
#ENC600