Quote of the Day (3/30/10) (Books Week)

The books which seal off the long perspective, which sever us from our losses, which represent the world of potency as a world of act, these are the books which, when the drug wears off, go on the dump with the other empty bottles. Those that continue to interest us move through time to an end, an end which we must sense even if we cannot know it; they live in change, until, which is never, as and is are one.
--Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending