I love libraries. I am sitting in the UW Suzello at the moment, studying/ or not studying Econ. I'm on the third floor in one of the rooms that looks like law libraries in the movies.... the long tables with lamps- old books pushing each other for space on the shelves. It is a HUGE Gothic vaulted room, so when I cough you can hear it at the other end of the place, with these large octagonal iron chandeliers that look like they belong in a French monastery. I feel like I should be surrounded by clouds of incense and Gregorian chanting. Wish I had my camera so I could be like Brad and show you.
Just walking into the Library made me extremely happy- a sense of calm almost. I wanted to rush off and find all kinds of interesting books and look at them and read them- not do what I came here to do which is study fundamentals of Supply and Demand. I demand less studying!
Libraries just make me happy (although I am not known to frequent them often).... It's partly the smell. that is so inviting or relaxing: Aged leather and old wood; stone and soft light. Maybe it is the fact that I am surrounded by a world of knowledge, of history and facts and stories and studies. I don't know, I just think it is cool.
And like Jorges Luis Borges said, "I've always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.' I couldn't agree more.
You should read his library and tower of babel in ficciones. good stories that man writes.
Don't blink. You'll miss it.
Posted by
Alana
on Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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