“Sometimes Dick would remember a time when he hadn’t been able to read. All he could do then was riffle the pages and try to smell the stories out of them. But now, oh now, he was a magician too, for he could unearth the hidden enchantment in the books any time he wanted to.”
That’s such an evocative quote! I can imagine a little child trying to “smell the stories” out of books, and then learning to read and suddenly having the “magic” to get the stories out of the pages. Beautiful!
Tales of the Marvelous 
That’s such an evocative quote! I can imagine a little child trying to “smell the stories” out of books, and then learning to read and suddenly having the “magic” to get the stories out of the pages. Beautiful!