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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365894" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Book</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was late in the autumn of 2210<br>The shuttle had gone off to Mars, <br>The highways of Asia were solidly blocked<br>With a billion Chinese cars, <br>I'd wandered around the Museum of Trees, <br>The Fruit Section opened my eyes, <br>The bitterness taste of electronic apples<br>So cleverly changed, and disguised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I seemed to be wandering round on my own, <br>Museums were on their way out, <br>The Virtual Channels were simple to screen<br>And more easy to access, no doubt.<br>The ancient attendant had followed me round, <br>He warily started to say: <br>‘I have something hidden, way out in the back<br>If you're interested, come out this way! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He led to a room that was dingy and dark, <br>Went over and pulled up the blind, <br>The place was so dirty, with cobwebs and dust, <br>‘Not used much; I hope you don't mind! '<br>And there on the table he pointed it out, <br>A thick slab of something - I looked, <br>‘You'll not see another of these in your life, <br>‘What is it? ' I said. ‘It's a book! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lifted the thick leather cover for me, <br>To show what he called was a page, <br>‘The government banned them in '73, <br>They said they caused people to rage.<br>We're not used to words on a scale such as this…'<br>There were words and more words, like a plague, <br>They dazzled my vision, I staggered a bit<br>Like a man who is struck with an ague.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He turned other pages, a hundred of them, <br>A thousand, I just couldn't count, <br>And every one teeming with words on each page<br>So the figures continued to mount.<br>‘We're used to see just fifteen words in a line, <br>We twitter and tweet all the time, <br>How could a person sit down with a book<br>With all that! - without blowing his mind? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘It's called ‘General Knowledge', the old man replied, <br>‘Not something you hear every day, <br>And fabulous stories and verses in rhyme, <br>And the glory of history's sway.<br>There once was a time, there were millions of these, <br>Each home had a shelf full of books, <br>But once our technology grabbed at our minds<br>We were lost, we were pretty well hooked! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The government knew it was dumbing us down, <br>You can't fight what you'll never know, <br>By banning the books and the Libraries<br>Our minds were beginning to slow.'<br>I left there quite thoughtful, I needed to write<br>How misled we had been, and were blind, <br>I started with paper, a pen and some ink<br>And believe it! - I wrote it in rhyme!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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