"The book is a physical object.
The hand-held book demands touching.
Effort must be taken to view it.
A print on the wall under glass has
no volume, no shadows, little or no texture.
It is not tangible. It is almost non-physical.
To the extent it can be seen, it is physical,
but it is closer to a conceptual idea, a vision.
Whereas a book is three dimensional.
It has volume (space), it is a volume (object),
and some books emit volume (sound)."
-- Keith A. Smith
Prologue
What is to be said about a book is wholly other.
Holding a book in hand is an artisan's way around saying this thing or that.
Give one a book and one shall have a stair toward other books.
Where is the one when one has opened first the end of a book?
Time is a book.
A book is equivalent to one man with his mouth hanging open.
Understanding the shape of a book is an exact science.
Science is no longer allowed to appropriate a book.
When is a book allowed to cheat on another?
A book is a sequence of portals.
A book is to underwear as wood is to one.
Collaborations build upon a book.
Samuel Beckett wrote a book about science.
The sphagnum bog is a book.
Peaches and Beauregard are a book about unconditional love.
A book was thrown from the top of the bleachers.
An eye tore through the seventh page of a book.
Weight loss is the subordinate of a book.
Loneliness is a book to experience.
How might one build a book?
Chapter One, etc.
(…)
Epilogue
A book is my underwear and the building of me.
“In order to read the new art one must
apprehend the book as a structure,
identifying its elements and understanding
their function.”
-- Ulises Carrión
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