Browsing the Bookshelves

Eclectic outpourings as books pass through

2005/10/4

The First Book

@ 03:51 PM (39 months, 22 days ago)

"The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world - just the world as you think you know it."

Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the US 1993-1995

Harmless

@ 03:49 PM (39 months, 22 days ago)

"A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it."

T.S. Eliot