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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:
#today in #1934 Carl Sagan born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/voyager-1s-pale-blue-dot/
Art by Chris Riddell
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- “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." Image of a child reading a book by Chris Riddel (remote)
