Book Tower
3 min readMar 4, 2021
In Praise of Books for World Book Day
I only brought one book. I should have brought two or four or twenty or five thousand, even more. Maybe then, it would have been enough. The books towering above me, creating a pathway to the sky, for an ant, anyway. I would never climb the tower of books, never desecrate them in this way — not even the “bad” ones.