“I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again — if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.” – Marilynne Robinson
And so why is it that you feel a certain connection with the author and his words when you read words written by someone else, in a state of mind you've never been in, sitting in a country you've never been to?
I believe the answer to this is the vast universe each of us carry within us that makes us capable to experience not just one but thousands of lives at the same time!
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin in A Dance With Dragons.
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