Justin (juso53)

Race #168

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Official speed 71.22 wpm (138.50 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start July 16, 2019 10:39:04pm UTC
Race Finish July 16, 2019 10:41:22pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 188.73
Text #3551150 (Length: 822 characters)

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.