Bloggers, Books and Carl Sagan

Reblogged from THE COASTAL CRONE:

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"A book is made from a tree.  It is an assemblage of flat flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.  One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years.  Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you.  Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another.  

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A great post by a blogging friend. I must ruminate over which words capture this blog.

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  1. coastalcrone
    Jan 04, 2013 @ 11:20:46

    Thank you very much for the reblog! I am sure you will have an unusual description of your outstanding blog.

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