smellincoffee
smellincoffee t1_jdclo9e wrote
Oh, please. If someone wanted to remove the book, there's easier ways of doing it than a bomb threat. I'd lay odds this is a fake threat so people can beat their chests and scream about bigotry. Modern humans are so completely dominated by the news/noise/outrage cycle it's risible.
smellincoffee t1_jdttv4c wrote
Reply to Weekly FAQ Thread March 26 2023: What is your favorite quote from a book? by AutoModerator
This quote sums up my love of literature (and de Botton):
“I explained — with the excessive exposition of a man spending a
lonely week at the airport — that I was looking for the sort of books in
which a genial voice expresses emotions that the reader has long felt
but never before really understood; those that convey the secret,
everyday things that society at large prefers to leave unsaid; those
that make one feel somehow less alone and strange.” - Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport