[quote]”I needed a method to find myself, to liberate myself from the slavery of the books, because there were no books there. It is not an exaggeration to say that in freedom we become slaves of the books, we do not have time even to know who we are because we are made out of quotations.”[/quote]

[color=silver][indent][indent]— Daniel B. Hinshaw, [i]Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga[/i][/indent][/indent][/color]

I have been feeling this strongly ever since watching [i]Andrei Rublev.[/i] And by watch, I mean, not finish watching because my husband and I both fell asleep on the couch after I convinced him to (yet again) watch (another) long and drawn-out, foreign-indie film. So far, my conclusion is that, reading books seems to be the only escape from reading.*


[sub][b]* Our country’s declining literacy rate has nothing to do with this topic. Correlating and connecting the two would be a distortion of the quote.[/b][/sub]