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Sarah Bakewell on Humanism and The Power of Connection

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Book Maniac

My favorite story from the stilex is uh zino as a as a young man Uh, he goes and he visits the oracle at delphi And the delphi says you will become wise when you begin to have conversations with the dead Which he doesn't fully understand in so many years later. He's in a bookstore And he realizes that this is The conversation we can have with the dead we can talk to the dead through the books we read Exactly another figure thatUh is in my New book is petraok um 14th century absolute book maniac. Yeah, maybe the greatest book lover of all time. I mean really, you know, he all manuscripts of course in those days

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