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desperance) wrote2010-08-09 11:22 pm
desperance) wrote2010-08-09 11:22 pm
Say not the struggle naught availeth
Every now and then, someone really gets it.
"I am saying that some books you read and you think, hey, this could be a movie, or photograph, or dance, or whatever. This book, in fact everything I've read by this author, is not like that. It is a text. (Think cloth; think textile; think textus, past participle of texo, texere: to weave, to plait, to build, to compose)."
Even if they do then go and spill tea all over it.
"I am saying that some books you read and you think, hey, this could be a movie, or photograph, or dance, or whatever. This book, in fact everything I've read by this author, is not like that. It is a text. (Think cloth; think textile; think textus, past participle of texo, texere: to weave, to plait, to build, to compose)."
Even if they do then go and spill tea all over it.