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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I think I may safely presume to speak for you too when I say that we all take reading and writing for granted. These skills were at first difficult for us to learn of course. Managing to make sense of and reproduce those arcs and angles was not bequeathed to us by biological evolution as were walking reaching out and grasping. Yet by the age of five or six most of us had mastered the basics of literacy and were ready to improve and expand upon them. By now reading and writing are so ordinary to us that we forget what an extraordinary achievement of cultural evolution they actually are. We have gotten to a point of such easy familiarity with this medium that like the proverbial fish that can never know what water is because that is simply the condition of its existence we are no longer aware to what extent literacy the transparent medium we swim in has modified our awareness of the world. For instance when in my first sentence I wrote that ?I think I can safely presume to speak for you too when I say…” you probably didn’t think there was something odd about a silent page of print talking to you in the voice of a person who was not really present.