While Reading, The Last Page, By Alberto Manguel, I believe the author is delivering a message after reading through the first, couple of passages. On page six, paragraph three, line two, what Manguel is expressing that reading is fundamental. When were able to put senses together with the aromas, our brain captures another level of senes. "' but the impression of suddenly being able to comprehend what before I could only gaze at is a vivid today as it must have been then it was like acquiring an entirely new sense so that now certain things no longer consisted merely of what my eyes could see, my ears could hear, my tongue could taste, [ .... ]. Another quote I found quite interesting was on page seven, paragraph 2, line seven "' we all read ourselves and the world around us in order to glimpse what and where we are. We read to understand, or begin to to understand. Readind is almost as much as breathing, is our essential function. [ ... ] Reading, I discovered, comes before writing. A society can exist out reading. According to the ethnologist Philippe Descola, societies without writing have a linear sense of time, while in socities called literate the sense of time cumulative. We as people become engaged in to the social world, but dont take out the time to read history nor actually grasp the concept of what the author is elaborating on. "' Reading is at the beginning of the social contract; learning how to read was my rite of passage. Reading is written history.

we all read