The Contamination of Books

The act of reading is a very unusual act. It is the only time in our lives when we have our own thoughts within us. And yet we contain at the same time the thoughts of another human being, the writer. We're this weird hybrid being with the thoughts of two people inside it. That is a fundamentally contaminated state. When you flip contamination, what you wind up with is fertility and hybridity. that's the way our species procreate. Nature finds incredible fertility in this.