Stories --
Stories matter. They explain, illuminate, process, etc.
Sometimes one line in a tale can make one point and go "Oh! Yes! Exactly that!"
sam_storyteller does that in this lovely story with this passage:
"No," he said simply. "There are books we keep, books that we read but handle with care because they are...physical objects in which we keep history. And there are books we read to pieces because they...aren't. Because they're -- "
" -- tools," she finished, and he nodded.
Yes. That. I hadn't ever articulated why I have reading copies and lending copies and for lack of a better term sacred copies of certain books. Sam has said it for me.
Sometimes one line in a tale can make one point and go "Oh! Yes! Exactly that!"
sam_storyteller does that in this lovely story with this passage:
"No," he said simply. "There are books we keep, books that we read but handle with care because they are...physical objects in which we keep history. And there are books we read to pieces because they...aren't. Because they're -- "
" -- tools," she finished, and he nodded.
Yes. That. I hadn't ever articulated why I have reading copies and lending copies and for lack of a better term sacred copies of certain books. Sam has said it for me.