At the Library

“Live in the library! Live in the library, for Christ’s sake. Don’t live on your goddamn computer and the internet and all that crap. Go to the library.”

—Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), writer, from “Telling the Truth,” keynote address of The Sixth Annual Writers’ Symposium by the Sea, Point Loma Nazarene University, 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Lose yourself — and find yourself — there.

 

 

PeezPIX 

Fogwalking, 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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