Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already k… - Alberto Manguel

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Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

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Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. In 1982 Manguel moved to Toronto, Canada and lived there (with a brief European period) until 2000. He has been a Canadian citizen ever since.

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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

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