Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.
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