Bookish Diversions: The Reason for Libraries
Edge Cases Reveal Deeper Purpose: Mosul, Ukraine, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Syria, and Afghanistan
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…
