Still Racing

Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.  Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book.  But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
―     Christopher Morley
From his book: “The Haunted Bookshop“
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On This Day In:
2013	Anew
2012	Make Both
2011	Are You Happy Yet?