“the books we love…
…love us back. In gratitude, we should promise not to cheat on them– not to pretend we’re better than they are; not to use them as target practice, agitprop, trampolines, photo ops or stalking horses; not to sell out scruple to that scratch-and-sniff infotainment racket in which we posture in front of experience instead of engaging it, and fidget our cynical opportunism for an angle, spin or a take, instead of consulting compass points on principle, and strike attitudes like matches, to admire our wiseguy profiles in the mirrors of slicks. We are reading for lives, not performing like seals for some fish.”
John Leonard
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