A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Richard Brookhiser
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To hear a storyteller is to be transported to another time and place. To read a story is to take part in that other time and place. It’s as if we weren’t really reading the words on the page, but instead we were there, at that moment, in that place.

Source: Founders Son: A Life Of Abraham Lincoln

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