Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 16:20:28 GMT 10
World Book and Copyright DayProclaimed for April 23rd of each year, it is the date on which three great representatives of world literature passed away: Shakespeare, Cervantes and Garcilaso de la Vega. I won't reiterate how this initiative was born, the web is full of information about this day. Instead, I would like to shine a light on what the UNESCO General Conference wants to promote: encourage everyone, especially young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and show renewed respect for the irreplaceable contribution of those people who have promoted the social and cultural progress of humanity.
The pleasure of reading is increasingly diminishing, due to the many - too many - distractions that the modern world regurgitates into people's homes, first and foremost video Special Data games. Some say that it is also the time that is missing, but I don't believe it. Time is always the same, it is an abstract entity. The day is always made up of 24 hours and technology should facilitate man's life, not complicate it. How best to celebrate this day? Start reading a new book, even if you're already reading another one.
Or read a few pages more than normal, since today is Saturday and tomorrow we don't go to school. Or maybe recommend some book, other than the one you wrote, the last ones in the world with the right to recommend your book. Today I will start reading The Name Eater , because I need to escape to an imaginary world and the fantastic always helps. Another woman had been hers, stolen from her legitimate husband, who had been left waiting helplessly. Smiling, she dressed and went out.The man had worked all day to please his lord, who “had the power of life and death” in the village. He would have married that evening, with little celebration, but, according to the law, he could not have consummated that union first, because that right belonged to his master.
The pleasure of reading is increasingly diminishing, due to the many - too many - distractions that the modern world regurgitates into people's homes, first and foremost video Special Data games. Some say that it is also the time that is missing, but I don't believe it. Time is always the same, it is an abstract entity. The day is always made up of 24 hours and technology should facilitate man's life, not complicate it. How best to celebrate this day? Start reading a new book, even if you're already reading another one.
Or read a few pages more than normal, since today is Saturday and tomorrow we don't go to school. Or maybe recommend some book, other than the one you wrote, the last ones in the world with the right to recommend your book. Today I will start reading The Name Eater , because I need to escape to an imaginary world and the fantastic always helps. Another woman had been hers, stolen from her legitimate husband, who had been left waiting helplessly. Smiling, she dressed and went out.The man had worked all day to please his lord, who “had the power of life and death” in the village. He would have married that evening, with little celebration, but, according to the law, he could not have consummated that union first, because that right belonged to his master.