As We Read A Text In Our

Entering A Library, I Am Always Stuck By The Way In Which A Certain Vision Of The World Is Imposed Upon The Reader Through Its Categories And Its Order.

Readers, Censors Know, Are Defined By The Books They Read.

A Society Can Exist - Many Do Exist - Without Writing, But No Society Can Exist Without Reading.

It Used To Be That Readers Were Relegated Because They Considered Themselves Far Above Society, And So The Metaphor Of The Ivory Tower Developed. Now There's Still This Idea That The Reader Doesn't Take Part In The Social Game And In Politics, The Res Publica, But For Other Reasons: He Doesn't Do It Because He's Not Making Any Money.

The Starting Point Is A Question.