What is a book? The book is a vase (no. 1)

Photo courtesy of photographer Ostillac Castillo of Bourq, France and sxc.hu.




Whether it is on paper or digital, a book  is a particular kind of dreaming solitude that
may, as Whitman said of himself, "contain multitudes." 



Dreaming solitude must have a place to dream.



Dreaming solitude must begin and end.



It must be a place "away."



If it is a collection of
poetry or novel of a