Quote of the Day (Umberto Eco, on How ‘A Book is a Fragile Creature’)

“A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands…. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.”—Italian novelist, essayist and semiotician Umberto Eco (1932-2016), The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver (1980)