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Fabulous line: The essence of a book isn't the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is "book." Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts co
by jjgreen 7y ago
Fabulous line: The essence of a book isn't the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is "book." Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts confuses the container for the thing contained.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Thinking that library catalogs exist to organize concepts confuses the container for the thing contained. It may be a nice line, but it's wrong: thinking that they don't confuses nature of the thing for purpose of the thing.