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insouciance
: lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance
Function: noun; [adjective: insouciant; adverb: insouciantly]
Date: 1799
Etymology: French, from in- + soucier to trouble, disturb, from Old French, from Latin sollicitare - more at solicit
why we as readers exist
"[The Library of] Alexandria and its scholars, by contrast, never mistook the true nature of the past, they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immorality. Reading is, in this sense a ritual of rebirth." (The Library at Night, Alberto Manguel, p. 28)
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