I appreciate you coming here, I really do, but you’ve got to stop looking at me like that. You remind me of my shrink. She kept staring at me in such a way, as if I were going to strangle myself with my necktie. Have you ever heard of Sisyphus? No, it’s not a venereal […]
Octavio Paz once said that solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Sometimes I think this is how Hell is supposed to be. A dark, empty room. Or a huge city with no one but yourself for company. I know that you’re here just because you want to find out what really happened […]
The only thing that is worth remembering, and worth remembering over and over again, is that in this world, under all and any circumstance, nothing ever happens. My name is Jonathan Fisher and I can stare at the sun longer than anyone else on this planet. Longer than you. And I am afraid you are […]
While the e-bookis slowly becoming the preferred medium when it comes to reading, some people still enjoy browsing for books in stores. Maybe because it’s nostalgic, maybe it’s because you never know what you might find. A room filled with books has a certain undeniable charm.
There really is nothing like sitting in an old bookstore that smells like ink and paper and flipping the pages of a novel that’s been read a hundred times.
Sometimes, I believe I was born in the wrong time period. =)
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I love books and love my e-reader for convenience. Interestingly most people (including me) find it very difficult to visualise digital books and therefore find it difficult to remember them. Nothing will replace books.
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