Drums at night

The job of books is not to help those who are unable to live life to provide alternative lives, but the opposite. No book is valuable if it does not take the reader's hand towards real life, even if it is not in the service of life. The hour of reading is a wasted hour if it does not give the reader a boost of strength to continue living, a sense of renewal, and a whiff of energy." -Hermann Hessia...