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Blurb: “Do you ever get bored being yourself? And think how nice it would be to swap, if only temporarily, your body and mind with someone else? Perhaps you'd choose to become a beautiful young redhead emerging elegantly, in an ermine cape, from a Rolls-Royce, on your way to a marvelous party where everyone was going to make a big fuss about you. Or perhaps you'd like to be a man with iron muscles and flashing eyes who was the world's greatest quarterback and was also a millionaire with no tax problems.
Or instead of such imagining, you might want to try to imagine what it would be like to be terribly crippled and all alone in the world with nothing to eat but a small can of baked beans and the end of a loaf of stale bread (slightly moldy). Or what it would feel like to be in prison for life because you had killed your best friend. Or what your daily routine would be if you ran General Motors or Helena Rubenstein. Or how you'd reward yourself when you'd just composed a new opera!
There are all sorts of imaginary situations. And many of them often seem more interesting than one's daily routine. But it is not easy to share someone else's knowledge, or wisdom, or sorrow, or romance in person. Even if the person is someone we love or is our closest friend. Communication in depth and at length is difficult, in person.
But it is easy on paper, in a book. There we can, at our lei-sure, at our own rate of speed, share someone else's mind, heart and soul totally. The best writers can do it most easily for the widest audience. But all writers are trying, on paper, in words, to share their lives, their hearts and minds with others.
And such sharing is really magic.
Such sharing allows you, even if you're a little old woman with one leg and a bad heart, to climb Mt. Everest. Or to spend the night in the tent of the oil Sheik of Araby. It also allows you, even if you're a timid salesclerk, to send a rescue fleet into the Antarctic. It lets you live in a number of ways in the eighteenth century, or on an African veld.
The magic of words on paper is waiting for you, ready to appear every time you open a book. It's always there, it's in-expensive, it's non-toxic, and it can take you right out of yourself-any old time.“