Fate of Books

Books can't be preserved for long. Worms come from nowhere and bore through pages and printed words. I could not save the works of Gogol, Nietzsche, Dostevsky and books on nuclear science and philosophy. Worms govern the fare of books not men nor writers or publishers nor even governments . May be  burning of books by Huang Ti was apt and necessary...

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