He nodded vigorously in response. Placing his hand fully into his pocket he turned on his heel and said, "Oh yes, yes, of course. We can work around your limited capacity for letters just now, but eventually--soon, in fact--you will need to learn to read much more proficiently."Â
Then more quietly, almost reverently, "Books, Miss Joz, represent everything. They are our best connection to all the things we could never discover or think ourselves and they allow us to climb higher and higher on the shoulders of the great minds that preceded us and to carry their theories and formulations further even than they themselves ever dreamed."
He pulled a smallish blue-green tome out of his pocket and brandished it before her for effect. "I did not simply change my life for books; books, in short, change the world."
Then more quietly, almost reverently, "Books, Miss Joz, represent everything. They are our best connection to all the things we could never discover or think ourselves and they allow us to climb higher and higher on the shoulders of the great minds that preceded us and to carry their theories and formulations further even than they themselves ever dreamed."
He pulled a smallish blue-green tome out of his pocket and brandished it before her for effect. "I did not simply change my life for books; books, in short, change the world."
