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Bookish Diversions: The Reason for Libraries

Edge Cases Reveal Deeper Purpose: Mosul, Ukraine, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Syria, and Afghanistan

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Joel J Miller
Dec 07, 2022
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Library in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo by SerenityRose.

Libraries represent an attempt to transcend death and dissolution. All our learning disintegrates unless otherwise integrated into a system for storage and retrieval. Orderly shelves of books stand athwart entropy and decay. And while dust is the inevitable end state, a library can buy us decades, sometime…

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