"We never return to the same book or even to the same pages, because in varying light we change and the book changes and memories grow bright and dim and bright again and we never know what exactly it is we learn or forget or what it is we remember."
- Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
Change is inevitable. Even Holden Caulfield comes to realize this. As this quote illustrates, our propensity to be shaped by the world around us constantly affects our perception. Humans - we're curious creatures. We're always on the lookout for something new to satiate our hunger for knowledge, knowledge about the world, and about ourselves. Yet, the sources that exist to help us make sense of this crazy world change just as much as we do. The answers are no more clear than the questions, ever shifting, like the colors in a kaleidoscope. On different days, in different moments, what we see and what we seek are altered.
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