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By: Regan, Lilith

Anything processed by memory is fiction.A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .My father reminds me that according to Midrash - the ever-evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures - when you arrive in the world as a baby, your hands are clenched, as though to say, "Everything is mine. I will inherit it all." When you depart from the world, your hands are open, as though to say, "I have acquired nothing from the world.A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.He who follows another will never overtake him.Always try to read form as content, style as meaning.Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on-however removed that may be from reality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086Y4F72M
• ISBN13: 9798636482178
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"