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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger
Wall, Book, Reading
John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

John Berger
Wall, Book, Reading
John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

John Berger
Wall, Shopping, Shadow
John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.896, Vintage

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