this is not a self-reflexive post

People keep saying that print will disappear. And I guess this blog as well as others, is just a testament to other forms of written expression taking its place.

BUT!

Being a rather optimistic person (or maybe nostalgic is a better word? or idealistic?), I think that there is something great about being able to share the things you like so easily on the net. Before, all the underlined passages, sentences, expressions in my books would stay closeted between their covers. Now: I have somewhere to show them, and share them.

I recently fell in love with a book that appeared as a prop in my previous post: Turtle Diaries.

Here is one of my favorite passages:

"I think of [the turtles] swimming through all that golden-green water over the dark, over the chill of the deeps and the jaws of the dark. And I think of the sun over the water, the sun though the water, the eye holding the sun, being held by it with no thought and only the rhythm of the going, the steady wing-strokes of the flippers in the water. Then it doesn't seem hard to believe. It seems the only way to do it, the only way in fact to be: swimming, swimming, the eye held by the sun, no sharks in mind, nothing in mind..."

There's a part later on that mentions how sharks don't float or something; that they must always be restless, continuously moving.

I personally have never been interested in sharks – tangible or metaphorical – but to swim without any on my mind... now that'd be nice.