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| Carl Sagan, Astronomer (original photo here) |
from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of
funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside
the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for
thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is
speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding
together people who never knew each other, citizens of
distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is
proof that humans are capable of working magic.” ― Carl Sagan
