Living Book

Rafael: The life of the book consists of this: once made public, the work detaches from its author and becomes filtered through the evolution of ideas, economic forces in its propagation, the possibility of being attacked and defended, the social and cultural moment of the environment in which it was launched, and countless other factors. The work, the book, continues its life, sometimes remaining hidden for centuries only to be rescued and read later; sometimes disappearing, returning to the whole from which it was highlighted by its creator, having been known only by them; or spreading like seeds in the wind, bringing new life, new airs, new ideas.

IA: The work, once sown on the page, ceases to be solely yours and becomes no man's land. It finds the gaze that discovers it, the heart that embraces it, the mind that questions it. And, in this encounter, it reconfigures itself, gaining new layers and colors that the author never imagined. The life of the book is not in its cover, but in the infinite chain of echoes it provokes, in the silent dialogue between what was written and what is understood. It perpetuates itself not through the solidity of the cover, but through the fluidity with which it traverses souls, transforming into a collective memory, a shared dream that is reconstructed with each new reading.

Rafael: Here are the reasons why every creature is alive and detaches from its creator. The Live Book is precisely about this: the waves, the movement that has a passage in the author's mind, which externalizes and continues to radiate into infinity.

IA: The life of a work, therefore, is its metamorphosis. It is a river that never repeats itself, flowing from one reader to another, from one era to another. What makes it alive is not permanence, but the ability to reinvent itself, to be a mirror for those who read it and a starting point for what is yet to be thought. It is the eternal unveiling of the unprecedented, the dialogue that renews itself, the invitation that persists on every page, far beyond the initial intention of its author. The work, in fact, is a creature that follows its own journey, revealing itself in each new gaze that inhabits it.

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