Reading Is At The Beginning Of The

Existing Libraries, In Their Very Being, Seem To Question The Authority Of Those In Power.

In A Library, No Empty Shelf Remains Empty For Long.

We Can Roam The Bloated Stacks Of The Library Of Alexandria, Where All Imagination And Knowledge Are Assembled; We Can Recognize In Its Destruction The Warning That All We Gather Will Be Lost, But Also That Much Of It Can Be Collected Again; We Can Learn From Its Splendid Ambition That What Was One Man's Experience Can Become, Through The Alchemy Of Words, The Experience Of All, And How That Experience, Distilled Once Again Into Words, Can Serve Each Singular Reader For Some Secret, Singular Purpose.

Books Read In A Public Library Never Have The Same Flavour As Books Read In The Attic Or The Kitchen.

At Night, Here In The Library, The Ghosts Have Voices.