06-23-2017, 06:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-04-2017, 03:52 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
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Dug. You know, as the camera panned over the fastidiously organized books, each carefully labeled as to subject category and with its appropriate Dewey Decimal System call number, I was thinking: Who would go to that much trouble?! Then a Homeric D'oh!: Carla was only a bloody professional librarian... !
Incidentally, I've already gone through the experience of catastrophically losing an entire personal library, in my case one acquired over five decades, comprising over 5,000 volumes dating back to the 18th century, and containing many a bibliophile's gem (though I never did, alas, acquire that much-coveted first edition of the Gutenberg Bible signed by God). I liken the catalyst I experienced from this event as being not quite equivalent to the loss of a small child, but certainly the next-tragedy-down, a notch or so. However, I know some pretty annoying little children, so my judgment might be skewed benignently on this point. At any rate, it is wonderful training (certainly for an intellectual perhaps a bit too prone to take the abstract for the concrete) for letting go and living on -- if one can arise from the devastated pile of ashes of one's former bookish self, and look on the bright side: aren't the fabled Akashic Records purportedly the ultimate back-up for any seemingly "lost" data that is in fact truly useful to Man? In any event, as a certain Sufi said: Words must die if people are to live.
Cheers!
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Among my first childhood experiences with the wonder of Literature
Dug. You know, as the camera panned over the fastidiously organized books, each carefully labeled as to subject category and with its appropriate Dewey Decimal System call number, I was thinking: Who would go to that much trouble?! Then a Homeric D'oh!: Carla was only a bloody professional librarian... !
Incidentally, I've already gone through the experience of catastrophically losing an entire personal library, in my case one acquired over five decades, comprising over 5,000 volumes dating back to the 18th century, and containing many a bibliophile's gem (though I never did, alas, acquire that much-coveted first edition of the Gutenberg Bible signed by God). I liken the catalyst I experienced from this event as being not quite equivalent to the loss of a small child, but certainly the next-tragedy-down, a notch or so. However, I know some pretty annoying little children, so my judgment might be skewed benignently on this point. At any rate, it is wonderful training (certainly for an intellectual perhaps a bit too prone to take the abstract for the concrete) for letting go and living on -- if one can arise from the devastated pile of ashes of one's former bookish self, and look on the bright side: aren't the fabled Akashic Records purportedly the ultimate back-up for any seemingly "lost" data that is in fact truly useful to Man? In any event, as a certain Sufi said: Words must die if people are to live.
Cheers!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
http://www.konbini.com/us/inspiration/jo...ts-online/
Me puzzling over The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut Speaks ca. late 1980s Among my first childhood experiences with the wonder of Literature