“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” George R.R. Martin puts it in a A Dance with Dragons Catching readers quotes Reading and writing should go hand in hand. Like peanut butter and jelly, each able to stand alone, yet so much better when layered together. “A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another,” Rebecca Solnit wrote in her beautiful meditation on why we read. For Galileo, books were a way of having superhuman powers; for Kafka, “the axe for the frozen sea within us”; for Carl Sagan, “proof that humans are capable of working magic”; for James Baldwin, a way to change our destiny. “Reading,” E.B. White wrote as he contemplated the future of reading in 1951, “is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.” "Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realize it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee; more gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog". by CS Lewis |
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When anyone at JD Lever wants to use the internet for educational purposes, I want them to first be able to look here for help. If what you need isn't here, I need to know so that I can help find it for you. Just put your request in an email to [email protected] and I will make an effort to find what you need and include it here. This is a Work in Progress......Not all sites will be functional, but it is 85% complete. Use what you can.... |
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