Several email newsletters I receive include a Quote of the Day. Some are funny, some profound, and some just wrong, IMHO. In this blog I will express my opinions when one strikes me as particularly obnoxious, or perhaps especially good.
Monday, December 03, 2007
W. H. Auden
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)
A brief explication: A book worthy of the name is one that in the reading reveals something of the reader to himself.
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