From NPR's Eulogy for a Record Store, a great quote about the merits of record store browsing:
"Browsing
is a form of learning that is intense but indirect," Wieseltier says.
"It's learning by osmosis, by serendipity. It's being surprised because
when you browse, you don't know what you're looking for. You're not
indulging in 'search.' You're basically making a bet on the richness of
the world and immersing yourself in it and coming away with something
that you've discovered. ... Look, we grow by discoveries. We don't grow
by what we already know. But for these interventions and revelations and
illuminations, we would be only what we already are. Who wants to be
that?"
Special thanks to http://www.hussalonia.com/ for pointing out this link!
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