:::::::::::::::::::::::::: Anto Lloveras

A book can also suffocate an idea if it closes it too early. Some books order so thoroughly that they smother; they explain so completely that no future use remains; they monumentalize an intuition until it can no longer move. What decays there is the possibility of living return. The book becomes the polished tomb of a research process that can no longer be touched. It is read once, cited, shelved, and never reopened as a working surface. When the book only concludes, it stops hosting.