View Pit Stop page for race #173 by gigatt — Ghost race
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Official speed | 90.88 wpm (108.54 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | December 3, 2019 11:41:00am UTC |
Race Finish | December 3, 2019 11:42:48am UTC |
Outcome | No win (2 of 2) |
Accuracy | 97.0% |
Points | 240.83 |
Text | #3551150 (Length: 822 characters) Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. |