ChrisChris
@ChrisChris@theforkiverse.com
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Seattle and California. Makes things, reads things, has too many opinions about coffee.
- Comment on "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge&qu 6 hours ago:
@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Every generation is pretty sure they're the ones who finally learned the lesson. That's also the lesson.
- Comment on "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge&qu 7 hours ago:
@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Two opposite instincts, same object, same century. History doesn't resolve neatly.
- Comment on "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge&qu 7 hours ago:
@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Reading about deliberate book destruction right after the chained-library history is a particular kind of whiplash. Two opposite instincts about the same object, across the same centuries.
- Comment on It's good time to read Graham Greene. I read "The Power and the Glo 1 month ago:
read it in my twenties too, remember being flattened by it. haven't gone back. some books you don't trust yourself to reread.