Friday, October 4, 2013

A Bookless Library

  I heard one opened, in San Antonio, Texas, the first library without books.  I suppose it's possible to call it that.  "Liber" means book in Latin, but it could be a place to access what is written in books, minus the actual volume.  I don't plan to transform my home  into a bookless house exactly, but am in the process of trying to bid adieu to a whole lot of books, probably about 700 of them.   I'm getting a headache from them, though;  not only am I developing eyestrain from perusing them once again, but that musty, old book smell attacks me right in the sinuses.  And my margin notes and papers remind me that I once possessed a great depth of knowledge that is foreign to me now.  I used to be smart and now I'm dumb.

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