Saturday, October 13, 2012

Books

So what is it about books...and reading? Here's my brother, Tom, sitting in his favorite spot on the sofa (a Turkish word for the dais on which the Grand Vizier sat), with...could it be a large format comic book? Or a manual for a new electronic device?


Which assuredly is not what the saint below was reading...probably something to do with his immortal soul. Which is actually what Tom teaches in some of his courses: the religious themes in American literature.




So I guess they are both engaged, one way or the other, in that most human activity, learning. Let's that all those nameless souls who gave us an alphabet, a clay tablet, a scroll, a book, an iPad.



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