Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Alphabet...

"But above all astonishing inventions, what loftiness of mind was that of the man who conceived of finding a way to communicate his most recondite thoughts to whatever other person, although seperated from him by the longest intervals of space and time! To speak with those who are in the Indies, to speak with those as yet unborn, or to be born perhaps a thousand or even ten thousand years hence! And with what ease! All through the various groupings of twenty simple characters on paper" - Galileo

As found in "Biblioclasm" by Marc Drogin

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