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Their wordsA book, as a physical object, generally has no aura, as Benjamin described it, but the text does.
Their wordsIt is the text, not the physical book, that makes the thing happen.
Their wordsThe problem is that the experience is irreducible and there is nothing else to quite compare it to. What reading is like is reading.
Their wordsIn reading, we do not break with reality: we are aware at the back of our mind that we are sitting and reading a book. We do not believe in the events of the book.
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