※ 引述《howardntucxh (DAAMMERUNG)》之銘言：
: 修馬要命的人兒呀
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I believe books will never disappear.
It is impossible for it to happen.
Of all mankind's diverse tools, u
ndoubtedly the most astonishing are his books.
All the others are extensions of the body.
The telephone is an extension of his voice;
the telescope and microscope extensions of his sight;
the sword and the plow are extensions of his arms.
In Caesar and Cleopatra,
when Bernard Shaw refers to the Library of Alexandria,
he says it is mankind's memory.
I would add it is also mankind's imagination.
Humanity's vigils have generated infinite pages of infinite books.
Mankind owes all that we are to the written word.
Why? What is our past but a succession of dreams?
What difference is there between dreaming and remembering?
Between remembering dreams and recalling the past?
Books are the great memory of the centuries.
Consequently their function is irreplaceable.
If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would men.
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