Friday, October 14

Here is a wonderful passage from the preface of Jacob Soll’s book The Information Master:

Studying dusty archives can be both lonely and tedious.  Yet if they happened to be situated in the lands of the former Roman Empire, and if they give up their treasures, there is nothing more satisfying than leafing through parchment, reading lost texts, solving old mysteries, and then walking home to dinner through ancient streets, with the smell of cool old stone, hungry from the knowledge gained from a hard day’s work.  The world changes, but from what I can tell, this pleasure has remained a constant.