425 books
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362 voters
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The Allatians believe that they have a writing system superior to all others. Unlike books written in alphabets, syllabaries, or logograms, an Allatian book captures not only words, but also the writer’s tone, voice, inflection, emphasis, intonation, rhythm. It is simultaneously a score and a recording. A speech sounds like a speech, a lament a lament, and a story re-creates perfectly the teller’s breathless excitement. For the Allatians, reading is literally hearing the voice of the past.
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― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.
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― Les Ignorants : Récit d'une initiation croisée
― Les Ignorants : Récit d'une initiation croisée
