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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