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The Written World:The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilzation
Posted on 11/25/18 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 11/25/18 at 10:15 pm
I read a lot. A LOT. This one was extremely interesting so I had to share.
Across the world and across thousands of years, the author looks into how each major work spurred on something-a movement, an idea, another book...It makes you stop and think throughout the read.
Fantastic pondering.
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Posted on 11/26/18 at 10:18 am to Sir Drinksalot
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"Perhaps the poverty of a landscape without rooms full of books is best seen by the positive power of a room full of books. A room full of books has a profound impact on a person. He is struck with the magnitude of what he doesn't know. There are simply so many books to be read on so many important topics. This realization engenders humility. Good books, even just sitting on shelves unopened, silently beckon him to a life of virtue by their presence. Knowing that each book in a room was selected by a librarian or other caretaker of the books draws out of him submission to the authority of another mind. The great rooms of books are the realization of a great mind, a mind at which to sit and learn."
Christopher Hagen, proprietor of Loome Theological Bookstore, August 2013.
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