I Think I Could Like This Guy

"In the ideal logotopia, every person would possess his own library and add at least weekly if not daily to it. The walls of each home would seem made of books; wherever one looked one would only see spines; because every real book (as opposed to dictionaries, almanacs, and other compilations) is a mind, an imagination, a consciousness. Together they compose a civilization, or even several."

William H. Gass, “In Defense of the Book: On the Enduring Pleasures of Paper, Type, Page, and Ink,” Harper’s Magazine 299 [November 1999]: 45-51, at 47)

I’d love to have a home with walls covered with books.

Via the Anal Philosopher.

Posted by on 05/12 at 07:22 AM

  1. Thanks for the link, John. I passed it on to Master; Gass is one of his favorite essayists. He gets anthologized often, and for good reason (Gass that is).

    Posted by Rufus  on  05/12  at  04:10 PM

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