23.8.05

Pärast seda kui ma Times Literary Supplement'i tasuta proovinumbri koju tellisin, olen ootuspäraselt saanud juba mitu kirjas, milles ärgitatakse seda väljaannet tellima. Viimane kiri on kirjutatud sellises jõulises stiilis, et kohe pean mõnd lauset tsiteerima:

A TLS subscription, perhaps more than any other, denotes a certain intellectual feistiness. A confidence in one's own opinions tempered with a willingness to entertain the views of one's peers.

On the subject of ideas, much has been written (some of it even in grammatically correct English) about the supremacy of the Internet and the corresponding demise of the printed word. But you and I know something the pundits appear to have forgotten. Books are still the primary source of new thinking...

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