No book has any meaning if it is not a Gospel. A prisoner on death row could have his cell lined with bookshelves, all wonderful books, but what he actually needs is an escape plan. You can’t escape if you don’t believe you can escape from a cell with infinitely thick walls, without doors and without windows. The convict in the cartoon can escape by moving perpendicular to the page of the book, toward me, who is reading it in another dimension.
