You, Book! You are the only one who won’t deceive, won’t attack, won’t insult, won’t abandon! You’re quiet—but you laugh, shout, and sing; you’re obedient—but you amaze, tease, and entice; you’re small, but you contain countless peoples. Nothing but a handful of letters, that’s all, but if you feel like it, you can turn heads, confuse, spin, cloud, make tears spring to the eyes, take away the breath, the entire soul will stir in the wind like a canvas, will rise in waves and flap its wings! Sometimes a kind of wordless feeling tosses and turns in the chest, pounds its fists on the door, the
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