"There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind
that cannot be denied.
It's true that you might be socially isolated,
because you're in the library, at home, so on,
but you're intensely alive,
in fact you're much more alive than the folks
walking these streets in New York in crowds...
if you read John Ruskin or Mark Twain, [or] Herman Melville,
you almost have to throw the book against the wall
because you're so intensely alive you need to take a break!"
-Cornell West from here.
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