tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4994140848384068030.post3092172387476450117..comments2021-01-30T00:33:34.857-06:00Comments on BOOKraft: Bookraft scrap paperlibelefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04980726113494813567noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4994140848384068030.post-13557255151550166842010-06-05T03:48:25.557-05:002010-06-05T03:48:25.557-05:00The Lublin booksculpture is just wonderful. I love...The Lublin booksculpture is just wonderful. I love the way the pages are turned into a human face. A multi-faceted one, too!<br />Just ideal to illustrate great classic novels, like Crime and Punishment, Demian, The Murderess by Papadiamandis and so many others!libelefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980726113494813567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4994140848384068030.post-41846933344436679482010-05-05T05:38:05.788-05:002010-05-05T05:38:05.788-05:00We also discussed it in the Greek library and here...We also discussed it in the Greek library and here is what we think:<br />Frozen sea: A person can be emotionally frozen, apart from other people. A book can melt the frigidness within oneself and re-establish contact with our feelings. In reading all sort of emotions start occuring, just like sea currents. And don't forget motion is life.<br />Axe: It may hurt but it is for our own good to "see" ourselves and the world. That is what a book does.<br />Book: It is a friend in loneliness. It awakens us. It recovers truth.libelefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980726113494813567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4994140848384068030.post-83223755629712868282010-05-04T11:23:11.539-05:002010-05-04T11:23:11.539-05:00"A book is an axe for the frozen sea within u..."A book is an axe for the frozen sea within us" Franz Kafka<br />It's difficult to continue this quote at all - Kafka wasn't an easy writer either to read or to understand. I have to explain it in English - it's more complicated to me because English isn't my mother tongue and I'm not sure if I'll manage to express all my thoughts and emotions. But I'll try to do my best!<br />"A book is an axe ..." - it's a very strong term for the object people - specially readers - love. I wouldn't compare a book with an axe. Umberto Ecco says that a book is the most suitable and comfortable thing in the world, like a spoon or a knife. And I agree with him. Kafka probably thought about the power of the book, the invisible strength for changing humans hearts and minds. Reading books is so powerful!!! And thats why reading books can melt "the frozen sea within us". It means for me that every reader becomes better, wiser and more sensitive to other people when he/she reads books. "A book and reading is the best entertainment the human being has ever thought of" - Wislawa Szymborska says. We not only relax while reading a book, but we get to know ourselves better, our emotions and feelings as well. A book helps us to express ourselves and to experience the others' emotions. I mean empathy. A book - such an ordinary object - causes a kind of katharsis, too. After reading you feel better than before. You see yourself that you're not alone on Earth and your problems aren't so difficult as you thought before. You've found some answers for your questions and advices for your problems.You have already known that there are a lot of people, readers, whom you belong to. This feeling helps you to destroy "the frozen sea within us" - you and me, to ruin walls between human beings. <br />There is a different aspect of this quot - I've found it just now. "A book is an axe for the frozen sea within us" - says Franz Kafka - it can concern the relationship between the author and the reader. But it's different matter for another time ...<br />Ewa Osoba from Lublin (Poland)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com