At evening time it is, with equal ceremony, locked away for the night in a specially prepared
vault for safekeeping.11 It is not a little strange that a faith which rules
out idolatry should have come, in the end, very near, if not quite, to making their sacred
book an object
of worship.
Even if one day, while you were reading in a bank
vault, an atomic bomb took
out the rest
of humanity, you still wouldn't be to read every single
book because your glasses would undoubtedly slip from your face and be crushed beneath your clumsy feet.