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Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
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Unless Their Use By Readers Bring Them

Lawrence Clark Powell
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
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A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. it is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what i myself experienced. that's not to say readers make up the book they want. we all have to agree on the facts. but readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. a book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.
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The books in mo and meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. there where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. books on the tv set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. they welcomed meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. and sometimes you fall over them.
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I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.
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I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but i believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. while a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. a good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. it not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.
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The librarian considered matters for a while. so…a dwarf and a troll. he preferred both species to humans. for one thing, neither of them were great readers. the librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. there was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. he liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where nature intended them to be.
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