Oneworld has An Amazing
piece on books, and libraries, and everything that interests us.
Our mistake, perhaps, has been to look upon a library as an all-encompassing and neutral space. Any library is, by definition, the result of a choice, necessarily limited in its scope. The earliest Mesopotamian libraries we know of, leading back to the third millennium BC, were born under these conditions.
Oneworld has An Amazing
piece on books, and libraries, and everything that interests us.
Our mistake, perhaps, has been to look upon a library as an all-encompassing and neutral space. Any library is, by definition, the result of a choice, necessarily limited in its scope. The earliest Mesopotamian libraries we know of, leading back to the third millennium BC, were born under these conditions.Like that long-ago school library, every library
contains texts that escape the librarians\’ vigilance
and are secretly subversive, because
subversiveness, much like proverbial beauty, lies in
the eye of the beholder.
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