Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn__ show you your reflection. It showed you your soul__t showed you who you really were.The wizard couldn__ look at it without turning away. The king couldn__ look at it. The courtiers couldn__ look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could.
In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends__ooks__t__ because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: __hat did they think of us?____id we make a mistake and say something tactless?____id they like us?___or is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading.
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In reading, friendship is restored immediately to its original purity. With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends__ooks__t__ because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: __hat did they think of us?____id we make a mistake and say something tactless?____id they like us?___or is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else. All such agitating thoughts expire as we enter the pure and calm friendship of reading.
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