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https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113606168803274867 gutenberg_org@mastodon.social - English novelist, poet and musicologist Sylvia Townsend Warner was born #OTD in 1893.
Warner initially trained as a musicologist and contributed to the Oxford University Press's Dictionary of National Biography before transitioning to a literary career. Lolly Willowes (1926) it is her debut novel and one of her most celebrated works, it is a feminist tale about a spinster who finds liberation through witchcraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Townsend_Warner
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) American scientist and writer
Cosmos, ch. 11 “The Persistence of Memory” (1980)
#quote #quotes #quotation #books #communication #continuity #humanity #writing
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The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church - Medievalists.net
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost-medieval-library-found-romanian-church/
