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penumbra
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the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object
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the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions.
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1 year, 9 months ago
the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions.
notable
1 year, 9 months ago
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"Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid, material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...."
"Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid, material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...."