Bishop
Berkely, who prophesized America’s grandeur, wrote that the flavor in
eating an apple is not in the apple or in the taste of the eater, a
liaison between both was required. The same holds true of a book or of a
collection of books, namely a library. What is a book per se? It is a material object immersed in a material world. It is
a set of dead symbolism. As Emerson stated, a library, therefore, turns
into a magical cave crowded with the dead, who can be reborn and brought
back to life whenever a page is opened. |