BUT I LOVE BOOKS!
Sven Birkerts,
The Gutenberg Elegies
"You say you want a revolution?
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Morris Weiss, age 8
Warsaw
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Notes:
Elegies for the book confound the object with the idea.
Our friend Professor Weiss learned to love books as a child. This wasn't remarkable -- so did his friends and neighbors.
As it happened, they didn't have many of the physical objects.
In the first place, they weren't exactly made of money.