The Book (n.) is a dead thing that seems alive until we ask it something. In order to make the book into a living thing, the platonic dialogue was invented to serve to forestall the reader's doubts and questions.
The Book (n.) is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the poetry behind the words spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
The Book (n.) is not an isolated being: It is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
The Book (n.) is that which a writer becomes when he dies.
The Book (n.) is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. The book is not an isolated being: It is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.