It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.
Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.
Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.
