Keith Houston
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“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. – Thamus, on the invention of hieroglyphics”
― The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
― The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
“Like laws and sausages, if you love parchment it is perhaps best not to see it being made.”
― The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
― The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
“This book is about the history and the making and the bookness of all those books, the weighty, complicated, inviting artifacts that humanity has been writing, printing, and binding for more than fifteen hundred years.”
― The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
― The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
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