I am reading Shashi Tharoor's Bookless in Baghdad, and I will post a couple of times about it as I wend my way through the book. However, this one sentence in the Preface of the BIB hit it right on with the metaphor. I thought it was so good that I had to copy it down to share here.
"To me, books are like the toddy tapper's hatchet, striking through the rough husk that enshrouds our minds to tap into the exhilaration that ferments within."
Links to blogs that have written about BIB: FreedomFries, LazyGeek, Organic Consciousness
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Re posting something we read and liked -- from driftglass, http://driftglass.blogspot.com/, in his 9 Dec Moonbatman piece:
We will change and morph and become something else, and it will be painful and frightening and terribly hard work, but to misquote a science fiction writer whose name eludes me at this early hour, it’s raining soup and we don’t yet have enough God damned sense to make buckets.
Thanks, Dus7. You had a link on writing, so don't forget to check out what McCourt says about writing to his students. (Posted later in this blog)
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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