“‘I daily listen to your words with more attention than one would believe, and perhaps I shall not be thought impertinent in wishing to be heard by you,’ wrote the Italian poet Petrarch in 1348. His addressee was the Roman philosopher Seneca, who had died nearly thirteen centuries before. […]“

— https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/20/livelier-than-the-living-a-marvelous-solitude/

Well, reading is “livelier than the living”, according to Catherine Nicholson in The New York Review of Books.

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