“ Basrahip: Words on paper are not even lies. They are empty. The voice that speaks them is...

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Basrahip: Words on paper are not even lies. They are empty. The voice that speaks them is your own, and you mean nothing when you say them except that here on this page are these words. It the least important thing that there is…. Your library was all created by a hand, not a voice. Tell me this. Will you say all books are true?

Geder: Well, no. Of course not. There are some essays I’ve read that were clearly…

B: And would you say that you can know perfectly which are true and which not?

G: No, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless. I mean, most of them, you can assume are…

B: I ask you this… If I gave you a meal that you knew was poisoned in part, and also you knew that you could not know where the poison lay, would it be wisdom to eat?

G: Of course not.

B: So it is with books.
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