All Powerful

I had done this all by myself.  No one had performed the magic for me.  I and the shapes were alone together, revealing themselves in a silently respectful dialogue.  Since I could bare lines into living reality, I was all powerful.  I could read.

-- Alberto Manguel (1948 -), Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor, A History of Reading (1996) The Last Page, p. 6