Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, with an introduction by Jean-Marc Hovasse (New York: Everyman's Library/Knopf, 2013) ("In the fifteen century, everything underwent a change. Humanity discovered a means of perpetuating thought more lasting and durable than architecture, and even simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. To the tame letters of Orpheus are to succeed Gutenberg's letters of lead." "The book will destroy the building!" "The invention of printing was the greatest event in history. It was the supreme revolution. It meant the complete renovation of humanity's mode of expression, the discarding by human thought of one form to reclothe itself in another, the complete and final casting of the skin of that symbolic serpent, which, since Adam, had served as the representation of intellect." Id. at 174-175. Somehow I don't think the Internet has quite replaced the Book.).
