The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm Quotes

“Biologically developed to be conscious of our existence, we treat our perceived identities and the identity of the world around us as if they required a literate decipherment, as if everything in the universe were represented in a code that we are supposed to learn and understand. Human societies are based on this assumption: that we are, up to a point, capable of understanding the world in which we live.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor

“alguém versado nas palavras deveria usá-las para ensinar, para deleitar e para transformar; isto é, ensinar ao ignorante, deleitar o enfastiado e transformar o indolente”39”
― Alberto Manguel, O leitor como metáfora: O viajante, a torre e a traça

“Kitaplarla şaşkına dönmüş Don Quijote ve hac yolcusu Dante, öğrendikleriyle felce uğrayan Prens Hamlet, okuduklarıyla yaşamak istediği hayatı birbirine karıştıran Emma Bovary..”
― Alberto Manguel, The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor