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亘氐乇賮 丕賱賳馗乇 毓賳 丕賱兀丿亘 賵毓賱賲 丕賱賱丕賴賵鬲貙 賮廿賳 賯賱丞 賷賲賰賳賴賲 丕賱卮賰 亘兀賳 丕賱賲賷夭丞 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賱賰賵賳賳丕 賴賷 丕賮鬲賯丕乇賴 賱賱賲毓賳賶貙 賵丕賱賴丿賮 丕賱賵丕囟丨. 睾賷乇 兀賳賳丕貙 賵亘鬲賮丕丐賱 賲丨賷乇貙 賲丕囟賵賳 賮賷 丨卮丿 賰賱 賯氐丕氐丞 賵乇賯 賲賳 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷賲賰賳賳丕 噩賲毓賴丕 賮賷 賱賮丕卅賮 賵賰鬲亘 賵兀賯乇丕氐 賰賲亘賷賵鬲乇貙 賮賷 乇賮 亘毓丿 乇賮 賲賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 爻賵丕亍 賰丕賳鬲 賲丕丿賷丞貙 賵賴賲賷丞貙 兀賵 睾賷乇 匕賱賰貙 賵毓賱賶 賳丨賵 賲孬賷乇 賱賱卮賮賯丞貙 亘賴丿賮 廿囟賮丕亍 卮賰賱 賲賳 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 賵丕賱賳馗丕賲 毓賱賶 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 亘賷賳賲丕 賳丨賳 賳毓賷 噩賷丿丕賸貙 賲賴賲丕 兀乇丿賳丕 兀賳 賳氐丿賯 丕賱毓賰爻貙 亘兀賳 賲爻毓丕賳丕 賱賱兀爻賮 賲丌賱賴 丕賱賮卮賱.
亘賲丕 兀賳 丕賴鬲賲丕賲賳丕 亘丕賱爻乇丿 丕賱丿賯賷賯 賱賱鬲賵丕乇賷禺 賵丕賱兀爻賲丕亍 兀賯賱 賲賳 賵賱毓賳丕 丕賱賱丕賲丨丿賵丿 亘丕賱鬲噩賲賷毓貙 賮賯丿 賯乇乇鬲 兀賳 丕亘丿兀 亘丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞貙 賱丕 賰賷 兀氐賳賮 鬲丕乇賷禺丕賸 丌禺乇 賱賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 兀賵 兀囟賷賮 賲噩賱丿丕賸 丌禺乇 賱賱賲噩賲賵毓丞 丕賱賵丕爻毓丞 亘卮賰賱 賲乇毓亘 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕亘貙 亘賱 賰賷 兀爻噩賱 賮賯胤 賵賯丕卅毓 丿賴卮鬲賷.
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷 丕賱禺丕氐丞 兀賵 鬲賱賰 丕賱毓丕賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀卮丕乇賰 賮賷賴丕 噩賲賵毓 丕賱賯乇丕亍貙 鬲亘丿賵 賱賷 丿丕卅賲丕賸 兀賲賰賳丞 賲噩賳賵賳丞 毓賱賶 賳丨賵 賲賲鬲毓貙 賵亘賯丿乇 賲丕 鬲爻毓賮賳賷 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 賰賳鬲 賲賮鬲賵賳丕賸 亘賲賳胤賯賴丕 丕賱卮丕卅賰貙 丕賱匕賷 賷賮賷丿 亘兀賳 丕賱毓賯賱 (廿賳 賱賲 賷賰賳 丕賱賮賳) 賷丨賰賲 丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘 丕賱賲鬲賳丕賮乇 賱賱賰鬲亘. 兀丨爻 亘賲鬲毓丞 丕賱賲睾丕賲乇丞 丨賷賳 兀賮賯丿 賳賮爻賷 賵爻胤 丕賱兀賰丿丕爻 丕賱賲賰鬲馗丞貙 賲丐賲賳丕賸 亘卮賰賱 禺乇丕賮賷 亘兀賳 丕賱賴乇賲賷丞 丕賱乇丕爻禺丞 賱賱丨乇賵賮 賵丕賱兀乇賯丕賲 爻鬲賯賵丿賳賷 匕丕鬲 賷賵賲 賱睾丕賷丞 賲賵毓賵丿丞.
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賷賲賰賳 丕賱毓賵丿丞 賱賱賲賯丕賱丞 丕賱鬲丕賱賷丞 兀賷囟賸丕:
http://prom2000.blogspot.com/2013/05/...
亘賲丕 兀賳 丕賴鬲賲丕賲賳丕 亘丕賱爻乇丿 丕賱丿賯賷賯 賱賱鬲賵丕乇賷禺 賵丕賱兀爻賲丕亍 兀賯賱 賲賳 賵賱毓賳丕 丕賱賱丕賲丨丿賵丿 亘丕賱鬲噩賲賷毓貙 賮賯丿 賯乇乇鬲 兀賳 丕亘丿兀 亘丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞貙 賱丕 賰賷 兀氐賳賮 鬲丕乇賷禺丕賸 丌禺乇 賱賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 兀賵 兀囟賷賮 賲噩賱丿丕賸 丌禺乇 賱賱賲噩賲賵毓丞 丕賱賵丕爻毓丞 亘卮賰賱 賲乇毓亘 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕亘貙 亘賱 賰賷 兀爻噩賱 賮賯胤 賵賯丕卅毓 丿賴卮鬲賷.
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷 丕賱禺丕氐丞 兀賵 鬲賱賰 丕賱毓丕賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀卮丕乇賰 賮賷賴丕 噩賲賵毓 丕賱賯乇丕亍貙 鬲亘丿賵 賱賷 丿丕卅賲丕賸 兀賲賰賳丞 賲噩賳賵賳丞 毓賱賶 賳丨賵 賲賲鬲毓貙 賵亘賯丿乇 賲丕 鬲爻毓賮賳賷 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 賰賳鬲 賲賮鬲賵賳丕賸 亘賲賳胤賯賴丕 丕賱卮丕卅賰貙 丕賱匕賷 賷賮賷丿 亘兀賳 丕賱毓賯賱 (廿賳 賱賲 賷賰賳 丕賱賮賳) 賷丨賰賲 丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘 丕賱賲鬲賳丕賮乇 賱賱賰鬲亘. 兀丨爻 亘賲鬲毓丞 丕賱賲睾丕賲乇丞 丨賷賳 兀賮賯丿 賳賮爻賷 賵爻胤 丕賱兀賰丿丕爻 丕賱賲賰鬲馗丞貙 賲丐賲賳丕賸 亘卮賰賱 禺乇丕賮賷 亘兀賳 丕賱賴乇賲賷丞 丕賱乇丕爻禺丞 賱賱丨乇賵賮 賵丕賱兀乇賯丕賲 爻鬲賯賵丿賳賷 匕丕鬲 賷賵賲 賱睾丕賷丞 賲賵毓賵丿丞.
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賷賲賰賳 丕賱毓賵丿丞 賱賱賲賯丕賱丞 丕賱鬲丕賱賷丞 兀賷囟賸丕:
http://prom2000.blogspot.com/2013/05/...
268 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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Alberto Manguel
234听books1,780听followersAlberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).
Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.
Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.
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June 27, 2019
鈥漌hen evening comes,鈥� he wrote, 鈥淚 return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, for which I was born. There I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives for their actions, and they, in their humanity reply to me. And for the course of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexations, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death: I pass into their world.鈥�
Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli, a passionate reader.
It is interesting, given the title of this book, that I read most of it in the middle of the night. Not the best choice of reading material if the main objective is to go back to sleep. I usually keep a heavy, ponderous tome near to hand for nights of insomnia, but given that I went to bed thinking about this book I couldn鈥檛 possibly even try to read something else when my eyelids snapped open at 2AM. I do have a self imposed rule that I must go to bed by 4AM regardless of whether I鈥檓 tired because I still have this job that requires me to be cognizant enough to make decisions that will continue to make rich people richer. Every morning I鈥檓 up at 6 to read for an hour before hitting the shower. By 7:30 I鈥檓 at my desk at work already pining for the book that I left on my nightstand at home.
The time between 2 and 4AM is a magical time. The world is as quiet as it is capable of being. Dust motes are suspended in the air and the pool of light over my head is a flame of focused energy creating a cocoon of darkness around me that waits鈥aits in that space until I decide to allow the real world to exist again.
鈥滻 have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. They don鈥檛 require that I pretend to know them all鈥�.鈥�
I have over 3,000 books in my library, large by most standards, small in comparison to the great collectors throughout history. I don鈥檛 read in my library. I browse and nibble at books while I鈥檓 in there, as I鈥檓 trying to pick out my next book to read. It has become pure fallacy for me to decide ahead of time what I will read next. My reading must not be confined by schedules. When I was a kid and owned only a few ratty paperbacks I would put them in an order to read trying to bring a semblance of efficiency to my most intimate pleasure. My mind decides what I need to feed it next and it can change within a matter of moments.
I do have my eye on an oxblood swivel chair that coupled with perfect lighting might provide me a reading space in my library. 鈥漇omewhere in Stratford, Ontario, is a solitary candleholder that dates back (its owner boasts) to Shakespeare鈥檚 time; it may once have held a candle whose brief life Macbeth saw as a reflection of his own. The lamps that guided Dante鈥檚 exiled reading in Ravenna and Racine鈥檚 cloistered reading Port-Royal, Stendhal鈥檚 in Rome and De Quincey鈥檚 in London, all were born of words calling out from between their covers; all were light assisting the birth of light.
I鈥檝e piled up a lot of mileage on my eyes and proper lighting is so much more important to me now than it was twenty years ago. I can remember times when I read by moonlight usually on the rusted tin roof of an outlier shed that slumped on the edge of my father鈥檚 property. I had this tattered woven rug of many colors I would lay on until the heat from the sun trapped in the tin escaped. The shed鈥檚 walls were sided in flattened cans that once held beans for American soldiers during WW2. The stars were over my shoulder so as not to distract. My galaxy was forming in the book before me as the world continued to change and evolve behind me. Dim lighting is no longer viable for me and a lamp is now judged more by how it will light the page of a book than by the aesthetic value of it鈥檚 form.
Michelangelo designed the steps for the Laurentian Library in Florence. He made three separate staircases, each different, as if to give the reader a choice of which world he wishes to enter.
鈥滻n my study I also require certain talismans that have washed onto my desk over the years, which I distractedly finger while I think of the next words to write, Renaissance scholars recommended keeping different objects in the study: musical and astronomical instruments to lend variety and harmony to the space, natural curiosities such as strangely shaped stoned and coloured shells. and portraits of Saint Jerome, patron saint of readers. I follow their recommendation in part. Among the objects on my desk are a horse-shaped soapstone from Congonhas do Campo, a bone carved into a skull from Budapest, a pebble from the Sibyl鈥檚 Cave near Cumae. If my library chronicles my life story, my study holds my identity.鈥�
I don鈥檛 really have a study. I do have an office at work with art I鈥檝e accumulated from my travels. I have a poster of La Sagrada Familia by Gaudi that I bought in Barcelona. I have a blown-up version of the dust cover art from the first edition of The Great Gatsby. I have a poster of the thinker bought at the Musee Rodin in Paris. I have photos of places I鈥檝e been scattered shotgun style around my office walls. Behind me I have a large copy ( I wish I could say I have the original.) of Wheatfield With Crows.
My Reading Chair where all the magic happens.
I have artwork in my library at home as well as I did not want to have solid walls of books even though it was difficult giving up space that could shelve more books. An Aztec calendar that I鈥檝e had longer than any other decoration is the perfect size to hide the electrical box. I have a watercolor of New Orleans that I bought from the artist himself. (Cash was king that night.) I have objects that I have picked up here and there. Two of my favorites are a smooth cylindrical stone that I found on the beach of California that fits my hand perfectly. The other is a piece of root from a dead bush that has a florescent yellow wood grain that looks like something from another planet. I have a resin monk whose face is hidden by a cowl. His smooth head is rubbed by my hand almost every time I enter my library. I have a water nymph bought in San Francisco that I hope will protect my library from being flooded again. I鈥檝e helped her out with making a few engineering changes to the house as well. It is impossible for me to leave fate totally to spiritual matters.
One wall of my library.
鈥滱s any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader鈥檚 hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words.鈥�
The first question people ask me when they enter my library is if I鈥檝e read all these books. Anybody who is a reader would never ask that question. 鈥淕od no, that would be horrible鈥� is my favorite response. I don鈥檛 know what percentage of my library has been read by me and I have no interest in finding out. I will never read all the books in my library because I will always continue to buy books for my library. Every two years or so I go through and clean out the books that didn鈥檛 make the cut to stay permanently. I shuffle them off to bookstores to trade for more books or I simply give them to the local library. The library evolves as my brain continues to seek out new avenues for exploration. I am, dare I say, a renaissance reader.
Sir Thomas Browne being inspired by death. Woodcut by Gwen Raverat.
鈥漌e know that the body is corruptible and the stuff of which it is made impermanent. But we also know that the soul [and I, the scrolls鈥� future reader, will interject, 鈥渢he book,鈥漖 is immortal and imperishable.鈥�
Alberto Manguel as he talks about his library also entertains the reader with stories about libraries both public and private around the world. He talks about reading almost as a form of worship. He will speak for you of thoughts you鈥檝e maybe only felt and certainly never shared with anyone else. You will have lightning bolt moments reading this book. You will be inspired to embrace the reasons that you read. You might even evolve as a reader. The library in your head will suddenly seem attainable. You will wonder why you own a TV.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli, a passionate reader.
It is interesting, given the title of this book, that I read most of it in the middle of the night. Not the best choice of reading material if the main objective is to go back to sleep. I usually keep a heavy, ponderous tome near to hand for nights of insomnia, but given that I went to bed thinking about this book I couldn鈥檛 possibly even try to read something else when my eyelids snapped open at 2AM. I do have a self imposed rule that I must go to bed by 4AM regardless of whether I鈥檓 tired because I still have this job that requires me to be cognizant enough to make decisions that will continue to make rich people richer. Every morning I鈥檓 up at 6 to read for an hour before hitting the shower. By 7:30 I鈥檓 at my desk at work already pining for the book that I left on my nightstand at home.
The time between 2 and 4AM is a magical time. The world is as quiet as it is capable of being. Dust motes are suspended in the air and the pool of light over my head is a flame of focused energy creating a cocoon of darkness around me that waits鈥aits in that space until I decide to allow the real world to exist again.
鈥滻 have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. They don鈥檛 require that I pretend to know them all鈥�.鈥�
I have over 3,000 books in my library, large by most standards, small in comparison to the great collectors throughout history. I don鈥檛 read in my library. I browse and nibble at books while I鈥檓 in there, as I鈥檓 trying to pick out my next book to read. It has become pure fallacy for me to decide ahead of time what I will read next. My reading must not be confined by schedules. When I was a kid and owned only a few ratty paperbacks I would put them in an order to read trying to bring a semblance of efficiency to my most intimate pleasure. My mind decides what I need to feed it next and it can change within a matter of moments.
I do have my eye on an oxblood swivel chair that coupled with perfect lighting might provide me a reading space in my library. 鈥漇omewhere in Stratford, Ontario, is a solitary candleholder that dates back (its owner boasts) to Shakespeare鈥檚 time; it may once have held a candle whose brief life Macbeth saw as a reflection of his own. The lamps that guided Dante鈥檚 exiled reading in Ravenna and Racine鈥檚 cloistered reading Port-Royal, Stendhal鈥檚 in Rome and De Quincey鈥檚 in London, all were born of words calling out from between their covers; all were light assisting the birth of light.
I鈥檝e piled up a lot of mileage on my eyes and proper lighting is so much more important to me now than it was twenty years ago. I can remember times when I read by moonlight usually on the rusted tin roof of an outlier shed that slumped on the edge of my father鈥檚 property. I had this tattered woven rug of many colors I would lay on until the heat from the sun trapped in the tin escaped. The shed鈥檚 walls were sided in flattened cans that once held beans for American soldiers during WW2. The stars were over my shoulder so as not to distract. My galaxy was forming in the book before me as the world continued to change and evolve behind me. Dim lighting is no longer viable for me and a lamp is now judged more by how it will light the page of a book than by the aesthetic value of it鈥檚 form.
Michelangelo designed the steps for the Laurentian Library in Florence. He made three separate staircases, each different, as if to give the reader a choice of which world he wishes to enter.
鈥滻n my study I also require certain talismans that have washed onto my desk over the years, which I distractedly finger while I think of the next words to write, Renaissance scholars recommended keeping different objects in the study: musical and astronomical instruments to lend variety and harmony to the space, natural curiosities such as strangely shaped stoned and coloured shells. and portraits of Saint Jerome, patron saint of readers. I follow their recommendation in part. Among the objects on my desk are a horse-shaped soapstone from Congonhas do Campo, a bone carved into a skull from Budapest, a pebble from the Sibyl鈥檚 Cave near Cumae. If my library chronicles my life story, my study holds my identity.鈥�
I don鈥檛 really have a study. I do have an office at work with art I鈥檝e accumulated from my travels. I have a poster of La Sagrada Familia by Gaudi that I bought in Barcelona. I have a blown-up version of the dust cover art from the first edition of The Great Gatsby. I have a poster of the thinker bought at the Musee Rodin in Paris. I have photos of places I鈥檝e been scattered shotgun style around my office walls. Behind me I have a large copy ( I wish I could say I have the original.) of Wheatfield With Crows.
My Reading Chair where all the magic happens.
I have artwork in my library at home as well as I did not want to have solid walls of books even though it was difficult giving up space that could shelve more books. An Aztec calendar that I鈥檝e had longer than any other decoration is the perfect size to hide the electrical box. I have a watercolor of New Orleans that I bought from the artist himself. (Cash was king that night.) I have objects that I have picked up here and there. Two of my favorites are a smooth cylindrical stone that I found on the beach of California that fits my hand perfectly. The other is a piece of root from a dead bush that has a florescent yellow wood grain that looks like something from another planet. I have a resin monk whose face is hidden by a cowl. His smooth head is rubbed by my hand almost every time I enter my library. I have a water nymph bought in San Francisco that I hope will protect my library from being flooded again. I鈥檝e helped her out with making a few engineering changes to the house as well. It is impossible for me to leave fate totally to spiritual matters.
One wall of my library.
鈥滱s any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader鈥檚 hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words.鈥�
The first question people ask me when they enter my library is if I鈥檝e read all these books. Anybody who is a reader would never ask that question. 鈥淕od no, that would be horrible鈥� is my favorite response. I don鈥檛 know what percentage of my library has been read by me and I have no interest in finding out. I will never read all the books in my library because I will always continue to buy books for my library. Every two years or so I go through and clean out the books that didn鈥檛 make the cut to stay permanently. I shuffle them off to bookstores to trade for more books or I simply give them to the local library. The library evolves as my brain continues to seek out new avenues for exploration. I am, dare I say, a renaissance reader.
Sir Thomas Browne being inspired by death. Woodcut by Gwen Raverat.
鈥漌e know that the body is corruptible and the stuff of which it is made impermanent. But we also know that the soul [and I, the scrolls鈥� future reader, will interject, 鈥渢he book,鈥漖 is immortal and imperishable.鈥�
Alberto Manguel as he talks about his library also entertains the reader with stories about libraries both public and private around the world. He talks about reading almost as a form of worship. He will speak for you of thoughts you鈥檝e maybe only felt and certainly never shared with anyone else. You will have lightning bolt moments reading this book. You will be inspired to embrace the reasons that you read. You might even evolve as a reader. The library in your head will suddenly seem attainable. You will wonder why you own a TV.
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April 30, 2019
賰賱賾 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 賰鬲亘賷 賴乇亘
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賰賱 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 賰鬲亘賷 賱賴 賯氐丞
賵賰賱賴丕 鬲丨賰賷 乇丨賱鬲賷 丕賱賲鬲賵丕囟毓丞 賲毓 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
賰賱賴丕 鬲毓亘乇 毓賳賷 賵毓賳 丨賯賷賯鬲賷
卮睾賮賷 貙貙 鬲丿乇噩賷 賮賷 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賲賮賷丿丞 貙貙 丌孬丕乇 賲乇丕賴賯鬲賷 丕賱賮賰乇賷丞 賵賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲賷 丕賱亘丕卅爻丞 賰賷 兀賳囟噩 賵兀鬲毓賱賲
匕賰乇賷丕鬲 賱賷丕賱 賯囟賷鬲賴丕 兀賳丕 賵賰鬲亘賷 兀丨丕賵賱 丕賱賴乇亘 賲賳 賰賱 賲丕 丨賵賱賷 賵丕賱睾乇賯 賮賷 丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲 丕賱賲囟賷卅丞 賵丕賱毓賵丕賱賲 丕賱爻丨乇賷丞 貙貙 丨丕賱鬲賷 丕賱賲丕丿賷丞 貙貙賵賳賵毓賷丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 賴乇亘鬲 賵兀鬲鬲 廿賱賷 賲賳 爻賵乇 丕賱兀夭亘賰賷丞 鬲氐丕丨亘賴丕 廿氐丿丕乇丕鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱兀爻乇丞 貙貙 孬賲 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱賲賯賮乇 丕賱匕賷 兀鬲毓丕賷卮 賲毓賴 丨賷孬 丕賱孬賯丕賮丞 賮賷賴 毓丕賱賲丕 孬丕賳賵賷丕 賱丕 賲鬲胤賱亘丕 乇卅賷爻賷丕 賲賳 賲鬲胤賱亘丕鬲 丕賱丨賷丕丞
賵賴賰匕丕 噩賱爻鬲 賵兀賱亘乇鬲賵 賱賳鬲毓賱賲 爻賵賷丕 毓賳 亘毓囟賳丕 丕賱亘毓囟
賱賳鬲亘丕丿賱 禺亘乇丕鬲賳丕 賵卮睾賮賳丕
賱兀卮毓乇 亘賲夭賷丿 賲賳 丕賱鬲賵丕囟毓 賵丕賱禺噩賱 丨賷賳 兀毓賱賲 毓賳 賯乇丕亍丕鬲賴 賵毓賳 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 賵毓賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕禺鬲丕乇賴丕 賱賳賮爻賴
賲毓 兀賰賵丕亘 賲賳 丕賱卮丕賷 丕賱賲賳賰賴 亘丕賱賯乇賳賮賱
賵亘毓囟 賰鬲亘賷 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞
賰丕賳鬲 賰賱 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賷 賲毓 賰鬲亘賷 鬲鬲噩爻賲 丨賵賱賳丕 賵鬲氐賳毓 賲賳 兀賳賮爻賴丕 賰丕卅賳丕鬲 鬲賳亘囟 賱賴丕 丨賷賵丕鬲賴丕 丕賱禺丕氐丞 亘賷賳 丕賱賴丕丿賷亍 賵丕賱賵賯賵乇 賵丕賱氐丕禺亘 賵丕賱乇賵賲丕賳爻賷 賵丕賱賲丕丿賷
賵噩賱爻賳丕 噩賲賷毓丕
兀賳丕
賵丕賱匕賰乇賷丕鬲
賵兀賱亘乇鬲賵
丕賱賰丕卅賳 丕賱賲匕賴賱 丕賱卮睾賵賮 亘丕賱賰鬲亘
丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱毓噩賷亘 丕賱賲賮胤賵乇 毓賱賶 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
丕賱賲爻鬲爻賱賲 賱爻丨乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 禺氐賵氐丕賸 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱
丨賷孬 賱丕 氐賵鬲 爻賵賶 賴賲爻賳丕 丕賱賲賲夭賵噩 亘囟丨賰丕鬲 禺丕賮鬲丞
賵賱丕 卮睾賮 爻賵賶 丕賱賰鬲亘
賵丕賱賰鬲亘 賮賯胤
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賰賳鬲購 兀爻賲毓賴丕 賮賷 乇兀爻賷鈥�
丕賱兀爻胤乇 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 賵丕賱賮乇丕睾丕鬲 丕賱亘賷囟丕亍 丕賱賲賵噩賵丿丞 亘賷賳 丕賱兀爻胤乇鈥�
鬲丨賵賱鬲 賮噩兀丞 廿賱賶 賲毓丕賳賺 匕丕鬲 廿賷賯丕毓鈥忊€�
賵賮賷 丨賵丕乇 氐丕賲鬲 賲賲賱賵亍 亘丕賱丕丨鬲乇丕賲 鬲毓乇賮賳丕 亘毓囟賳丕 廿賱賶 亘毓囟鈥�
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賵賲丕 廿賳 鬲賲賰賳鬲購 賲賳 乇亘胤 丕賱毓賱丕賲丕鬲 丕賱爻賵丿丕亍 丕賱賳丨賷賱丞 亘毓囟賴丕 賲毓 亘毓囟 賵鬲丨賵賷賱賴丕 廿賱賶 丨賯丕卅賯 丨賷丞鈥�
丨鬲賶 兀氐亘丨鬲 廿賳爻丕賳丕賸 噩亘賾丕乇丕賸鈥�
賰賳鬲購 兀爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 兀賯乇兀
賴匕丕 丕賱氐賵鬲 丕賱賲賲鬲毓 賮賷 丕賱乇兀爻
氐賵鬲 賮毓賱 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
賴匕賴 丕賱賱匕丞 丕賱睾賷乇 賲毓賯賵賱丞 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨賵賱 丕賱丨乇賵賮 賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賵丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賱賲毓丕賳賷
賴匕賴 丕賱賱匕丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲兀鬲賶 賲賳 賲賱賰丞 睾丕賲囟丞 胤賵乇賳丕賴丕 毓賱賶 賲丿丕乇 賲賱丕賷賷賳 丕賱爻賳賷賳
賴賰匕丕 鬲禺鬲賱胤 丕賱兀賲賵乇 賱丿賷 賵兀賳丕 兀丨丕賵賱 賲乇丕噩毓丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘
鬲鬲丿禺賱 匕丕鬲賷鬲賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丕賱賱丕夭賲
賷鬲丿丕禺賱 廿賳胤亘丕毓賷 毓賳 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵爻丨乇賴丕 賲毓 毓卮賯 賮毓賱 賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵 丕賱睾乇丕賲 亘丕賱賰鬲亘
賵兀爻鬲賲乇 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賵鬲鬲夭丿丕丿 丕賱兀爻胤乇 乇睾賲賸丕 毓賳賷
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賴賵賷賾丞
兀毓乇賮 鬲賲丕賲丕 兀賳賾 卮賷卅丕賸 賲丕 賷賲賵鬲 賮賷 丿丕禺賱賷 毓賳丿賲丕 兀爻鬲睾賳賷 毓賳 賰鬲亘賷
賵兀賳 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賷 鬲毓賵丿 廿賱賷賴丕 丿賵賲丕 賵兀亘丿賸丕
賵鬲氐賷亘賳賷 亘丨賳賷賳 賲丐賱賲 賱賱睾丕賷丞
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鈥� 鈥徺勜� 兀爻鬲胤賷毓 賲胤賱賯丕賸 賵囟毓 鬲毓乇賷賮 毓賳 賳賮爻賷 亘丿賵賳 兀賳 賷鬲囟賲賳 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲毓乇賷賮 賰賱賲丞 賯丕乇卅丞
賵乇亘賲丕 兀氐丿賯 鬲毓乇賷賮 賱賷 賴賵 賯丕乇卅丞 賵賯丕乇卅丞 賮賯胤
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賵賲丕 兀賳鬲賲賷 廿賱賷賴 亘丕賱兀爻丕爻 賴賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷
兀卮毓乇 亘兀賳賴丕 鬲丨丿丿 賴賵賷鬲賷 賵 鬲毓胤賷賳賷 氐賮丞 丕賱賲賵丕胤賳丞
賵乇孬鬲購 毓卮賯 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 毓賳 噩丿賷
賵 賱賱兀爻賮 賱賲 兀乇賴 兀亘丿丕賸 賮賯丿 乇丨賱 毓賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵兀賳丕 賱賲 兀鬲賲賲 毓丕賲丕賸 賵丕丨丿丕賸 亘毓丿
兀丨賷丕賳丕賸 兀鬲氐賵乇 賱賵 兀賳賳賷 鬲毓乇賮鬲 廿賱賷賴 賵鬲丨丕賵乇賳丕 丨賵賱 賱匕丞 丕賱賯乇锟斤拷亍丞
賱賵 丕乇鬲賰賳鬲 廿賱賶 氐丿乇賴 賵丨賰賷鬲 賱賴 毓賳 鬲噩丕乇亘賷 丕賱賯乇丕卅賷丞 賵丕賳賮毓丕賱丕鬲賷 亘賴丕
兀鬲禺賷賱 賮賯胤 賱兀賳賳賷 丨乇賲鬲 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賮乇氐丞 廿賱賶 丕賱兀亘丿
賰賱 賲丕 賵乇孬鬲賴 毓賳賴 賴賵 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 丕賱禺卮亘賷丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞鈥�
賮賲毓馗賲 丕賱賰鬲亘 兀囟丕毓賴丕 兀賵賱丕丿賴 賱賱兀爻賮 賵賱賲 兀锟斤拷鬲胤毓 兀賳 兀鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴丕
賵賴賰匕丕 丕噩鬲賲毓賳丕 兀賳丕 賵噩丿賷 賮賷 丨囟賳 賷卮亘賴賳丕
賴賵 亘禺卮亘賴 丕賱丿丕賮賷亍 丕賱賯丿賷賲 賵兀賳丕 亘賰賳夭賷 丕賱匕賷 丕禺鬲賱爻鬲賴 賮賷 睾賮賱丞 賲賳 丕賱丿賳賷丕
賰鬲亘賷 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞
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丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賴賵爻
賰賱 賯丕乇卅 賷賵噩丿 賰賷 賷囟賲賳 賱賰鬲丕亘 賲毓賷賳
賯丿乇丕 賲鬲賵丕囟毓丕 賲賳 丕賱禺賱賵丿
丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賲賮賴賵賲 賴賷 胤賯爻 丕賳亘毓丕孬
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兀丨賱賲 亘丕賱賰鬲亘 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 兀賲丕賲賷
兀賯乇兀 丕賱爻胤賵乇 賵兀賳丕 賳丕卅賲丞 賮兀鬲丕亘毓 兀丨丿丕孬 乇賵丕賷丞 賱賲 兀賳賴賴丕 賲孬賱丕賸
賵賱胤丕賱賲丕 丨丕賵賱 毓賯賱賷 丕賱亘丕胤賳 氐賳毓 兀丨丿丕孬 噩丿賷丿丞 賱賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 亘賱 賵兀丨賷丕賳丕賸 賱賱賰鬲亘 丕賱禺丕賱賷丞 賲賳 丕賱丿乇丕賲丕 賰兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 毓賱賲賷丞 兀賵 兀丿亘賷丞 賲孬賱賸丕
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丕賱賰鬲亘 賱賴丕 兀賯丿丕乇賴丕 丕賱禺丕氐賾丞
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賮賰乇丞 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賱賱丕爻鬲賮丕丿丞 賮賯胤 鬲丐賱賲 乇賵丨賷
丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 兀乇賯賶 賲賳 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 賲噩乇丿 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 賲賰丿爻丞
兀毓馗賲 賲賳 兀賳 鬲賯賷賲 亘賲丿賶 丕爻鬲賮丕丿鬲賰 賲賳賴丕
丕賱丨乇賵賮 兀賱賯賴丕 賮賷 匕丕鬲賴丕
賮賷 丕賲鬲夭丕噩賴丕 亘乇賵丨賰
賵兀賳鬲 鬲鬲卮乇亘賴丕 毓賱賶 賲賴賱
兀賵 鬲乇賰囟 賵乇丕亍賴丕 賱丕賴孬賻丕
兀賵 賲鬲毓賲賯賸兀 賮賷賲丕 亘賷賳 鈥徹з勜池焚堌�
兀賷丕 賰丕賳鬲 丨丕賱鬲賰 丕賱賯乇丕卅賷丞
賮兀賳鬲 鬲賳睾賲乇 亘賰賱賾賷鬲賰 賮賷 丕賱賱匕丞
賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱-賴賳丕 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賷氐亘丨 賱賱兀卮亘丕丨 兀氐賵丕鬲丕
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賴賳丕賰 賲乇丨賱丞 丌禺乇賷 亘毓丿 毓卮賯 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賰賮毓賱
賵賴賷 毓卮賯 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 匕丕鬲賴
卮賰賱賴 貙貙 賲賱賲爻賴 貙貙 乇丕卅丨鬲賴 貙貙 鬲噩賱賷丿賴
丕賱賵乇賯 亘丿丕禺賱賴
賱賵賳赖
賴賳丕 鬲鬲毓丕賲賱 賲毓 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賰賰丕卅賳 賷鬲賳賮爻
丕賲鬲丿丕丿 賱乇賵丨賰 丕賱賳賴賲丞
賵賰賰賱 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲 丕賱丨賷丞 賰賱 賰鬲丕亘 賷毓丕賲賱 亘胤乇賷賯丞
賮賴賳丕賰 賰鬲丕亘 鬲賮鬲丨賴 毓賱賶 賲賴賱 鬲賲賱爻 毓賱賷賴 亘乇賯丞 賵鬲禺卮賶 兀賳 鬲爻鬲毓賲賱 賯賱賲賰 賲毓賴
賵賴賳丕賰 賰鬲亘 鬲丨亘 兀賳 鬲丿丕毓亘賴丕 亘賯賱賲賰 鈥�
鬲丨囟賳賴丕 賵鬲鬲賰乇賲卮 亘毓囟 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 賵鬲賰賵賳 賴賷 爻毓賷丿丞 兀賰孬乇 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賲賷賲賷丞
賴賳丕賰 賰鬲亘 賯丿賷賲丞 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 賰丕丿鬲 兀賵 鬲賰賵賳 氐賮乇丕亍
鬲鬲匕賰乇 賲毓賴丕 兀賵賯丕鬲丕 兀賯丿賲 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賰
鬲賯乇兀 賴賵丕賲卮賴丕 賵鬲囟丨賰 兀賵 鬲亘賰賷
鬲鬲匕賰乇 兀賷賳 賰賳鬲 鬲噩賱爻 丨賷賳 賱丕賲爻鬲 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞
兀馗賳 兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱丨丕賱丞 鬲爻賲賶 賴賵爻
賵兀賳丕 兀丨賭賭賭賭亘 賴賵爻賷
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廿賲賷賱丕 賮賷賱丕
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 胤賷賮賸丕
賮賷 丕賱囟賵亍 賳賯乇兀 丕亘鬲賰丕乇丕鬲 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳..
賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賳亘鬲賰乇 賯氐氐賳丕 丕賱禺丕氐賾丞..
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兀丨亘 賰賱 賲丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賷賴賲爻 廿賱賷賰
兀賳 鬲賱丕賲爻賴 亘兀氐丕亘毓賰
賰禺胤丕亘 賵乇賯賷 賱丕 廿賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷
賵賰賰鬲丕亘 賷氐丕賮丨賳賷 亘乇丕卅丨鬲賴 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 兀賵 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞鈥�
賮賱賰賱 乇丕卅丨丞 賲毓賳賶 禺丕氐 毓賳丿賷
賵賱丕 賷賲賰賳 兀亘丿丕賸 賲賯丕乇賳丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賵乇賯賷 亘丕賱廿賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞
賴賳丕賰 賱匕丞 禺丕氐丞 亘丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲 丕賱賲胤亘賵毓丞
賱匕丞 鬲賯賱賷亘 賵乇賯丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘
賵丕賱賯賱賲 賮賷 賷丿賰 鬲氐賳毓 亘賴 賴賵丕賲卮賰 丕賱禺丕氐丞鈥�
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱廿賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷 兀毓丕賳賳賷 賰孬賷乇賸丕 兀賳丕 賵賲賳 賴賲 賲孬賱賷
賲賲賳 賱丕 鬲爻賲丨 兀賵囟丕毓賴賲 丕賱賲丕丿賷丞 亘廿乇囟丕亍 鈥徹堌官囐� 丕賱丿丕卅賲 廿賱賶 賰鬲丕亘 噩丿賷丿
廿賳賲丕 賷亘賯賶 丕賱賵乇賯賶 亘賰賱 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴 賴賵 爻賷丿 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵兀爻丕爻 丕賱卮毓賵乇 亘賱匕鬲賴丕
兀賳丕 賮賯胤 兀卮毓乇 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱丕爻鬲賷丕亍 賲賲賳 賷丨丕乇亘賵賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱廿賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷
兀賵 賲賲賳 賱丕 賷夭丕賱 賷鬲爻丕亍賱 兀鬲賵賮賷乇賴 賲噩丕賳丕 禺胤兀 兀賲 氐賵丕亘
兀卮毓乇 兀賳 賲賳 賷鬲賳丕賯卮 賮賷 賲爻兀賱丞 賰賴匕賴 賷鬲賵噩賴 賱賷 卮禺氐賷丕 亘廿賴丕賳丞 亘丕賱睾丞
賰兀賳賴 賷賯賵賱 賱賷 亘亘爻丕胤丞 兀賳鬲賽 賱丕 鬲爻鬲丨賯賷賳 賯乇丕亍丞 賰鬲丕亘 賰匕丕 兀賵 賰匕丕 賱兀賳賰賽 賱丕 鬲賲賱賰賷賳 孬賲賳賴
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亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲
賮廿賳 賵囟毓 鬲爻毓賷乇丞 賱賱孬賯丕賮丞 賴賵 毓丕乇 毓賱賶 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞
賵兀賳 賷鬲丕丨 丕賱兀丿亘 賱賲賳 賷丿賮毓 兀賰孬乇 賮匕賱賰 亘賱丕 賲亘丕賱睾丞
"賯賱丞 兀丿亘"-
賱丕亘丿 賵兀賳 賷賰賵賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賲鬲丕丨賸丕 賰丕賱賲丕亍 賵丕賱賴賵丕亍
賱丕 賰卮毓丕乇 兀噩賵賮
亘賱 賰亘丿賷賴賷丞 賱丕 鬲丨鬲賲賱 丕賱賲夭丨 兀賵 丕賱賲賮丕賵囟丞
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賵胤賳賸丕
丕賱賯氐氐 賴賷 匕丕賰乇鬲賳丕
賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賴賷 賲爻鬲賵丿毓丕鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞
賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賴賷 丕賱丨乇賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 廿毓丕丿丞 鬲卮賰賷賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 廿賱賶 鬲噩丕乇亘賳丕 丕賱禺丕氐丞
赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌
氐丨賷丨 兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 亘賲丨鬲賵丕賴 兀賵賱賸丕
-"賵 兀賳 賲丕 賷亘賯賶 "亘丿丕禺賱賰" 賴賵 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲賴 "亘丿丕禺賱賴
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 亘毓囟 丕賱丨丕賱丕鬲 賯丿 賱丕 賷丨丿孬 匕賱賰 亘丕賱囟乇賵乇丞
賴賳丕賰 賰鬲亘 丕乇鬲亘胤 亘賴丕 賵亘賵乇賯賴丕 廿乇鬲亘丕胤賸丕 乇賵丨賷賸丕 賵丨爻賷賸丕 毓賲賷賯賷賳
賮乇丕卅丨丞 賰鬲丕亘 賲毓賷賳 賵賲賱賲爻賴 鈥撠促嗀� 賰丕賳 兀賲 賳丕毓賲丕賸 賱丕賲毓丕賸
賵鬲匕賰乇 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賵丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 賯乇兀鬲賴 賮賷賴
賵賴賵丕賲卮賷 丕賱賲鬲賳丕孬乇丞 賮賷 氐賮丨丕鬲賴 丕賱毓夭賷夭丞
賰賱 匕賱賰 賷毓胤賷賳賷 卮毓賵乇丕 丿丕卅賲丕 亘丕賱賳賵爻鬲丕賱噩賷丕
賱賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 賯乇兀鬲賴 賮賷賴
賵賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 鈥撡堎囐� 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賮賷 丨丕賱鬲賷 賰匕賱賰- 賱賷爻鬲 兀賴賲 賰鬲亘 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賲賳 賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱賲丨鬲賵賶 賵丕賱賯賷賲丞鈥�
賵賱賰賳賴丕 丕賳丿賲噩鬲 賮賷 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賷 亘卮賰賱 賱丕 兀爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱鬲毓亘賷乇 毓賳賴 賵廿賷賮丕亍賴 丨賯賴
-"兀氐亘丨鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵胤賳丕 氐睾賷乇賸丕 鬲毓賷卮 "亘丿丕禺賱賴
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 噩賵毓賸丕 賵賳賴賲賸丕
丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓乇賮賳丕 毓賳賴丕 賵賱賲 賳賲鬲賱賰賴丕 鬲毓亘乇 胤乇賷賯賳丕 賵鬲丿毓賵 賳賮爻賴丕 孬丕賳賷丞
賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 廿睾賵丕亍賳丕 賷賵賲賷賾丕 亘丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賲孬賷乇丞 賵丕賱兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱賲丨賷賾乇丞
赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌
乇亘賲丕 賱丕 賷賰賵賳 賴賳丕賰 兀賲鬲毓 賲賳 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 廿賱丕 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳賴丕
賱匕丞 丕丨鬲囟丕賳 賰鬲丕亘
卮賰賱 賲賰鬲亘鬲賰 賵賴賷 鬲賰亘乇 兀賲丕賲賰
賲鬲毓丞 丕賱丕賲鬲賱丕賰
兀毓乇賮賰賲 亘噩丕賳亘 丌禺乇 賲賳賷
兀賳丕 丕賱賯丕乇卅丞 丕賱噩卮毓丞
兀賳丕 丕賱賳賴賲丞 丕賱卮乇賴丞 賱賱兀亘丿
丕賱噩丕卅毓丞 賱丕賲鬲賱丕賰 賰鬲丕亘 噩丿賷丿
乇亘賲丕 馗乇賵賮賷 丕賱賲丕丿賷丞 賯丿 鬲賯賮 毓丕卅賯丕賸 兀賲丕賲 賴匕丕 丕賱噩卮毓 賵賱賰賳賳賷 兀丨賷丕賳丕賸 賷賳賮賱鬲 賲賳賾賷 丕賱毓賷丕乇 丨賷賳 兀氐亘丨 亘丿丕禺賱 鈥徹Ｙ� 賲毓乇囟 賱賱賰鬲丕亘
氐丿乇賷 賷囟胤乇賲 賵兀卮毓乇 亘乇睾亘丞 丨丕乇賯丞 亘丕賱賮乇丕乇 亘噩賲賷毓 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕禺鬲夭丕賳賴丕 賵噩毓賱賴丕 賱賷 賵丨丿賷 賮賯胤
賴賱 鬲匕賰乇鬲 睾賵賱賵賲責
賱兀賳賳賷 賮毓賱鬲
鈥�:鈥廌
Books are really my precious :P
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 鬲乇鬲賷亘賸丕
賱賷爻 賱丿賷賾 兀賷 卮毓賵乇 亘丕賱匕賳亘 亘卮兀賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 兀賯乇兀賴丕 賵 乇亘賲丕 賱賳 兀賯乇兀賴丕 兀亘丿丕賸貙 賮兀賳丕 兀毓乇賮 亘兀賳 賰鬲亘賷 賱丿賷賴丕 氐亘乇 賱丕 丨丿賵丿 賱賴. 爻賵賮 鬲馗賱購賾 鬲賳鬲馗乇賳賷 丨鬲賶 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱毓賲乇. 賵 賴賷 賱丕 鬲胤賱亘 賲賳 兀賳 兀鬲馗丕賴乇 亘兀賳賷 兀毓乇賮賴丕 賰賱賴丕
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丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賲賳爻賷賾丞 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷 鬲丨賷丕 丨賷丕丞賸 氐丕賲鬲丞賸 賱丕 鬲賱賮鬲 丕賱賳馗賭乇.
賲毓 賴侔匕丕 賮廿賳 賲賷夭丞 賰賵賳賴丕 賲賳爻賷賾丞
鬲購鬲賷丨 賱賷 兀丨賷丕賳丕廿毓丕丿丞 丕賰鬲卮丕賮
賯氐賾丞 賲毓賷賾賳丞
賯氐賷丿丞 賲毓賷賾賳丞
賰賲丕 賱賵 兀賳賴丕 噩丿賷丿丞 鬲賲丕賲丕賸 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷
赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌
賰賱 賰鬲丕亘 賵乇賯賷 毓賱賶 乇賮賴 丕賱禺卮亘賷 賱賴 賱賴 馗乇賵賮賴 丕賱禺丕氐丞
兀賳馗乇 廿賱賶 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓賰爻 匕賵賯賷 -賵賲丕 賰丕賳 匕賵賯賷 賯丿賷賲賸丕 兀賷囟賸丕
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賵爻賷賱丞 亘賯丕亍
兀毓胤鬲賳賷 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 毓匕乇賸丕 賲賯亘賵賱賸丕 賱毓夭賱鬲賷
亘賱 乇亘賲丕 丕毓胤鬲 賲睾夭賶賸 賱鬲賱賰 丕賱毓夭賱丞 丕賱賲賮乇賵囟丞 毓賱賷賾
赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌赌
賱丕 兀爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 兀賮賰乇 亘卮賷亍 丌禺乇 賰丕賳 廿賱賶 噩丕賳亘賷 丿賵賲丕 爻賵賶 丕賱賰鬲丕亘
丕賱亘卮乇 賷鬲睾賷乇賵賳
賵丕賱賰賱 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱賰賱 兀卮亘賴 亘丕賱賲丨胤丕鬲
賵賷亘賯賶 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賱丕亘丿 賵兀賳賴 卮毓乇 亘丨丕噩鬲賴 廿賱賷 賰賲丕 丨丕噩鬲賷 廿賱賷賴鈥�
兀賱賲爻賴 賮兀噩丿賴 賰丕賳 鬲賵丕賯丕賸 賱賱賲爻丕鬲 兀氐丕亘毓賷鈥�
賷丨賲賱 囟丨賰丕鬲賷 賵丿賲賵毓賷 賵賷乇賮賯 亘賷 鈥�
鈥� 賷賳丕賯卮賳賷 賵賷鬲卮丕噩乇 賲毓賷 賵賷氐丕賱丨賳賷 賰賱 賲乇丞鈥�
賲丕 丕賱匕賷 兀亘賯丕賳賷 毓賱賶 賯賷丿 丕賱丨賷丕丞 亘毓丿 賲卮賷卅丞 丕賱賱賴責
丕賱賰鬲亘 鈥�
賵丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丨丿賴丕
丕賱氐賵乇丞 賱賴賷賱賷賳 賰賷賱賱乇
鬲賭 賯賭 乇兀
May 11, 2019
Paradise in Danger
The Library at Night is my Bible, Quran and Vedic guide on the aesthetics of this somewhat odd institution called the library. Odd because the concept of a warehouse filled with printed volumes available for general consultation is a rather late development in European civilisation, and odd because it is a concept that seems to have run its course as that civilisation becomes more technological. For this latter reason alone Manguel's aesthetic observations are critical: something is being lost in the technology, quite apart from the books.
I have supervised a small collegiate academic library at the University of Oxford for the last 10 years. But I am not a professional librarian, by which I mean I have no degree or other qualifications in so-called Library Science. I am not, in other words, a member of that fraternity. In some ways this is an advantage since, unlike many of my colleagues in the university, I can actually pay attention to books and readers rather than technology and 'best practice' techniques.
Having said that, my first experience of librarianship was over forty years ago. I worked at the time for a well-known firm of management consultants in New York City. On my first day with the firm I was assigned to a pro bono project with the New York Public Library. The Library's card catalogue, much of it on highly acidic paper produced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was crumbling away to dust. Informed just of these minimal facts I was dispatched to 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan
The client was the chair of the Board of Trustees, the formidable Mrs Brooke Astor. Mrs. Astor asked if we could meet daily for tea so that I could brief her on the seriousness of the state of affairs and suggest what might be done. It turned out that the situation was more acute than Mrs. Astor had assumed. It was even worse than anything Manguel had encountered in his exceptionally thorough research.
Not only was the NYPL card catalogue disintegrating, but when a card was lost or severely damaged, it meant that the associated volume was irrecoverable. The reason: since the library opened in 1911 its books had been catalogued with a shelf location according to, not subject or title or author, which might have allowed a proximity search, but date of receipt by the Library. That is, for all intents and purposes books were stored in an entirely random order. A missing book therefore was the needle in a very large haystack.
Fortunately, solving the problem was easy. The library was closed for 2 months. The catalogue boxes were sealed and crated in situ. All of the approximately 2 million cards were shipped by air to South Korea where a small army of data entry clerks who neither read nor spoke English completed a virtually flawless electronic transcription. In fact, it was because they knew no English and could not therefore erroneously interpolate that their accuracy was so high.
This was my first lesson in the concrete importance of library aesthetics. It was also my last until I wandered into Blackfriars Oxford. I wasn't aware either of Manguel's book, or my need for It. So I stumbled blindly into his aesthetic categories without assistance.
Whatever else it is, a library is about the relationships among books and between an entire assemblage of books and some specific group of readers. Manguel's sense of the library collection as a whole is consequently vital. My first task at Blackfriars was the disposition of approximately 10,000 books left from several legacies and stored in boxes in every available nook and cranny in the college. So I was immediately forced into acts of wanton vandalism and arbitrary censorship. Books are not equal, even if they're free, even if they're economically valuable.
Making a choice about which to keep, which to sell, and which to give away is in some way soul-destroying to anyone with a fondness for books. But it also forces a decision on what one thinks the library is. Blackfriars is both a research and undergraduate library so there is a tendency is to keep as much as possible. On the other hand, our members have access to the enormous Bodleian collection as well as to other collegiate libraries. Rational prudence dictates therefore to only take unique new items.
Ultimately the only thing a librarian can do is make an aesthetic judgement about the coherence of the entire collection. But he or she must make this judgment that no one else feels obliged to. And the judgement must be advertised as widely as possible until its challenged. My judgement was to develop certain major classifications 鈥� the European Holocaust, North American Philosophy, South American fiction for example. These classifications have become sharper over the years but no one has challenged me yet. And we have developed a certain reputation in the university as a consequence. I'm supposing that my taste and sense of balance has been accepted. That or I'm considered too irascible to contradict.
Manguel's appreciation of the aesthetics of power in the library is something I know many of my colleagues in other university libraries lack. Deciding who can be a member, who can access the collection and for what reasons is an exercise in power, one that has significant effects in academia.
The original great library of Alexandria was meant as both a storage place to access printed material and as a meeting place for scholars. At Blackfriars, this is still the case. But physical space is limited and there is a significant population of riff-raff that one does not want on the premises even at Oxford. I'm forced to make snap-judgments daily about the scholarly value of individuals applying for access. Once again the only way I know of to avoid arbitrariness is to be as explicit as possible about the criterion for membership and the reasons for it. Sometimes a smile has swayed me I admit, but overall there haven't been too many complaints.
The ordering of books on the shelves is not a trivial matter as Manguel notes. Quite apart from the NYPL issue, the placement of books determines the types of random encounters that readers are likely to make. We use a modified Library of Congress classification. But the LC is notoriously bad in theology. So in the 1950's one of my predecessors modified the system, using the then unassigned class of BQ for Christian Writers. Since then BQ has been designated by the LC for Hindu studies. Consequently we get a number of calls inquring whether our exceptionally large Hindu collection is available for browsing.
I have an ongoing aesthetic battle with the technical establishment of the Bodleian itself. As a collegiate library, we are entirely independent of the Bodleian but participate in the university-wide catalogue which is maintained by them. The Bodleian, like the Library of Congress and other large institutions, essentially sells its cataloguing information to lesser libraries and so has a commercial interest in the technical precision of catalogue entries.
The 'language' in which the catalogue is expressed is a cross between computer-code and a group-constructed corporate memo - highly structured but entirely irrational. It is ugly, it is costly and it is a symbol to me of bureaucratic domination. The Bodleian has an interest in it. I do not. Our readers can easily find what they need through the traditional author, title and subject headings plus a little local knowledge. The Bodleian demand conformity; I find their demands unpleasant and presumptuous. Our modus vivendi is that I do it my way and they spend any additional effort necessary to do it their way. High-tech aesthetics are clearly not my cup of tea..
I could go on commenting on the relevance of each of Manguel's categories 鈥� the library as workshop, as imagination, as mind, as myth, as memory, as a snub to death - but I think the point is made. His view of the library as an essentially aesthetic object is correct and it is operational. Everything from architecture to the order of books on shelves can be subsumed under an aesthetic. The aesthetic is not arbitrary but it is also not linearly rational. It is certainly not limited to the purely economic or technical constraints that seem to dominate discussions among librarians. Ultimately the aesthetic is some manifestation of a shared ideal. And there are better and worse ideals depending on how inclusive they are.
Jorge Luis Borges was director of the National Library of Argentina for 18 years. His idealised vision of the library carries some weight given his career as a writer. Reflecting his regard for the Jewish mystical treatise, The Zohar, Borges conceived the universe itself as a book. For him paradise "existed in the shape of a library" where one could constantly encounter the unexpected, the disconcerting, and, with a bit of luck, oneself. That's the most inclusive ideal I've yet to encounter.
Postscript: Just to show how inclusive, this piece just showed up in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/blood-bookworms-bosoms-and-bottoms-the-secret-life-of-libraries
The Library at Night is my Bible, Quran and Vedic guide on the aesthetics of this somewhat odd institution called the library. Odd because the concept of a warehouse filled with printed volumes available for general consultation is a rather late development in European civilisation, and odd because it is a concept that seems to have run its course as that civilisation becomes more technological. For this latter reason alone Manguel's aesthetic observations are critical: something is being lost in the technology, quite apart from the books.
I have supervised a small collegiate academic library at the University of Oxford for the last 10 years. But I am not a professional librarian, by which I mean I have no degree or other qualifications in so-called Library Science. I am not, in other words, a member of that fraternity. In some ways this is an advantage since, unlike many of my colleagues in the university, I can actually pay attention to books and readers rather than technology and 'best practice' techniques.
Having said that, my first experience of librarianship was over forty years ago. I worked at the time for a well-known firm of management consultants in New York City. On my first day with the firm I was assigned to a pro bono project with the New York Public Library. The Library's card catalogue, much of it on highly acidic paper produced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was crumbling away to dust. Informed just of these minimal facts I was dispatched to 5th Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan
The client was the chair of the Board of Trustees, the formidable Mrs Brooke Astor. Mrs. Astor asked if we could meet daily for tea so that I could brief her on the seriousness of the state of affairs and suggest what might be done. It turned out that the situation was more acute than Mrs. Astor had assumed. It was even worse than anything Manguel had encountered in his exceptionally thorough research.
Not only was the NYPL card catalogue disintegrating, but when a card was lost or severely damaged, it meant that the associated volume was irrecoverable. The reason: since the library opened in 1911 its books had been catalogued with a shelf location according to, not subject or title or author, which might have allowed a proximity search, but date of receipt by the Library. That is, for all intents and purposes books were stored in an entirely random order. A missing book therefore was the needle in a very large haystack.
Fortunately, solving the problem was easy. The library was closed for 2 months. The catalogue boxes were sealed and crated in situ. All of the approximately 2 million cards were shipped by air to South Korea where a small army of data entry clerks who neither read nor spoke English completed a virtually flawless electronic transcription. In fact, it was because they knew no English and could not therefore erroneously interpolate that their accuracy was so high.
This was my first lesson in the concrete importance of library aesthetics. It was also my last until I wandered into Blackfriars Oxford. I wasn't aware either of Manguel's book, or my need for It. So I stumbled blindly into his aesthetic categories without assistance.
Whatever else it is, a library is about the relationships among books and between an entire assemblage of books and some specific group of readers. Manguel's sense of the library collection as a whole is consequently vital. My first task at Blackfriars was the disposition of approximately 10,000 books left from several legacies and stored in boxes in every available nook and cranny in the college. So I was immediately forced into acts of wanton vandalism and arbitrary censorship. Books are not equal, even if they're free, even if they're economically valuable.
Making a choice about which to keep, which to sell, and which to give away is in some way soul-destroying to anyone with a fondness for books. But it also forces a decision on what one thinks the library is. Blackfriars is both a research and undergraduate library so there is a tendency is to keep as much as possible. On the other hand, our members have access to the enormous Bodleian collection as well as to other collegiate libraries. Rational prudence dictates therefore to only take unique new items.
Ultimately the only thing a librarian can do is make an aesthetic judgement about the coherence of the entire collection. But he or she must make this judgment that no one else feels obliged to. And the judgement must be advertised as widely as possible until its challenged. My judgement was to develop certain major classifications 鈥� the European Holocaust, North American Philosophy, South American fiction for example. These classifications have become sharper over the years but no one has challenged me yet. And we have developed a certain reputation in the university as a consequence. I'm supposing that my taste and sense of balance has been accepted. That or I'm considered too irascible to contradict.
Manguel's appreciation of the aesthetics of power in the library is something I know many of my colleagues in other university libraries lack. Deciding who can be a member, who can access the collection and for what reasons is an exercise in power, one that has significant effects in academia.
The original great library of Alexandria was meant as both a storage place to access printed material and as a meeting place for scholars. At Blackfriars, this is still the case. But physical space is limited and there is a significant population of riff-raff that one does not want on the premises even at Oxford. I'm forced to make snap-judgments daily about the scholarly value of individuals applying for access. Once again the only way I know of to avoid arbitrariness is to be as explicit as possible about the criterion for membership and the reasons for it. Sometimes a smile has swayed me I admit, but overall there haven't been too many complaints.
The ordering of books on the shelves is not a trivial matter as Manguel notes. Quite apart from the NYPL issue, the placement of books determines the types of random encounters that readers are likely to make. We use a modified Library of Congress classification. But the LC is notoriously bad in theology. So in the 1950's one of my predecessors modified the system, using the then unassigned class of BQ for Christian Writers. Since then BQ has been designated by the LC for Hindu studies. Consequently we get a number of calls inquring whether our exceptionally large Hindu collection is available for browsing.
I have an ongoing aesthetic battle with the technical establishment of the Bodleian itself. As a collegiate library, we are entirely independent of the Bodleian but participate in the university-wide catalogue which is maintained by them. The Bodleian, like the Library of Congress and other large institutions, essentially sells its cataloguing information to lesser libraries and so has a commercial interest in the technical precision of catalogue entries.
The 'language' in which the catalogue is expressed is a cross between computer-code and a group-constructed corporate memo - highly structured but entirely irrational. It is ugly, it is costly and it is a symbol to me of bureaucratic domination. The Bodleian has an interest in it. I do not. Our readers can easily find what they need through the traditional author, title and subject headings plus a little local knowledge. The Bodleian demand conformity; I find their demands unpleasant and presumptuous. Our modus vivendi is that I do it my way and they spend any additional effort necessary to do it their way. High-tech aesthetics are clearly not my cup of tea..
I could go on commenting on the relevance of each of Manguel's categories 鈥� the library as workshop, as imagination, as mind, as myth, as memory, as a snub to death - but I think the point is made. His view of the library as an essentially aesthetic object is correct and it is operational. Everything from architecture to the order of books on shelves can be subsumed under an aesthetic. The aesthetic is not arbitrary but it is also not linearly rational. It is certainly not limited to the purely economic or technical constraints that seem to dominate discussions among librarians. Ultimately the aesthetic is some manifestation of a shared ideal. And there are better and worse ideals depending on how inclusive they are.
Jorge Luis Borges was director of the National Library of Argentina for 18 years. His idealised vision of the library carries some weight given his career as a writer. Reflecting his regard for the Jewish mystical treatise, The Zohar, Borges conceived the universe itself as a book. For him paradise "existed in the shape of a library" where one could constantly encounter the unexpected, the disconcerting, and, with a bit of luck, oneself. That's the most inclusive ideal I've yet to encounter.
Postscript: Just to show how inclusive, this piece just showed up in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/blood-bookworms-bosoms-and-bottoms-the-secret-life-of-libraries
August 12, 2012
Alberto Manguel understands you.
He knows that you look at your shelves at night, remembering a favorite passage, or how you acquired a book, as your gaze moves across titles on spines in the moonlight.
He sympathizes with your attempts to figure out new ways to organize your books, a task that becomes more urgent and, at the same time, more impossible as time passes and your collection grows outside the spatial boundaries of your shelves, or perhaps even of your home.
He understands your frustration when you realize that you have forgotten books that you already have read, or that you remember specific passages or illustrations, but can't remember the book they come from.
He accepts your practice of looking at books at friends' and acquaintances' houses, scanning titles and analyzing organizational schemas to glean some clues about their owners' likes, dislikes, even their identity.
He understands you because he is also a passionate bibliophile. He openly admits his own habits and foibles around books. And he's made a career out of writing books about books for people who love books.
In The Library at Night, Manguel starts with his personal project - to oversee the renovation of a 15th-century barn, south of the river Loire, to house his own library. Once you shake off the envy (a 15th-century barn as a personal library! renovating it to your specifications! in France!!!), you can accompany Manguel on his thematic exploration of the meanings of libraries across history - personal libraries as well as public libraries. Manguel has organized each chapter around a specific function or theme connected to libraries - The Library as Myth, The Library as Order, The Library as Chance, The Library as Oblivion, etc. He studies each theme from many perspectives - his personal experience, historical accounts and literary evidence, illustrations, quotes and many wonderful anecdotes.
I am not including any specific examples of the stories he tells, since part of the joy of this book is in being surprised when you turn a page, alternating with feeling a sense of familiarity with Manguel's expressing a feeling or experience that you share. Be warned though - this is the sort of book that leads you to follow friends, family members, and colleagues around, as you say excitedly, "Just listen to this!"
My main criticism of the book is that the reproduction of the images, especially photographs, is not the best. On the other hand, Yale University Press has created a book that readers can afford to buy for their own libraries, even if they have already spent the majority of their last paycheck on other books.
Highly recommended for bibliophiles everywhere, especially if they read it at night.
He knows that you look at your shelves at night, remembering a favorite passage, or how you acquired a book, as your gaze moves across titles on spines in the moonlight.
He sympathizes with your attempts to figure out new ways to organize your books, a task that becomes more urgent and, at the same time, more impossible as time passes and your collection grows outside the spatial boundaries of your shelves, or perhaps even of your home.
He understands your frustration when you realize that you have forgotten books that you already have read, or that you remember specific passages or illustrations, but can't remember the book they come from.
He accepts your practice of looking at books at friends' and acquaintances' houses, scanning titles and analyzing organizational schemas to glean some clues about their owners' likes, dislikes, even their identity.
He understands you because he is also a passionate bibliophile. He openly admits his own habits and foibles around books. And he's made a career out of writing books about books for people who love books.
In The Library at Night, Manguel starts with his personal project - to oversee the renovation of a 15th-century barn, south of the river Loire, to house his own library. Once you shake off the envy (a 15th-century barn as a personal library! renovating it to your specifications! in France!!!), you can accompany Manguel on his thematic exploration of the meanings of libraries across history - personal libraries as well as public libraries. Manguel has organized each chapter around a specific function or theme connected to libraries - The Library as Myth, The Library as Order, The Library as Chance, The Library as Oblivion, etc. He studies each theme from many perspectives - his personal experience, historical accounts and literary evidence, illustrations, quotes and many wonderful anecdotes.
I am not including any specific examples of the stories he tells, since part of the joy of this book is in being surprised when you turn a page, alternating with feeling a sense of familiarity with Manguel's expressing a feeling or experience that you share. Be warned though - this is the sort of book that leads you to follow friends, family members, and colleagues around, as you say excitedly, "Just listen to this!"
My main criticism of the book is that the reproduction of the images, especially photographs, is not the best. On the other hand, Yale University Press has created a book that readers can afford to buy for their own libraries, even if they have already spent the majority of their last paycheck on other books.
Highly recommended for bibliophiles everywhere, especially if they read it at night.
July 26, 2019
hey, what did you guys do on your friday night? get drunk? get laid? spend a quiet evening with friends? see a fillum??
me? oh, i just sat at home, nursing a sore back with painkillers, and decided to let my thoughts about cloud atlas percolate a little before writing a review for it, and decided to play a little booknerd game with myself. as part of my new year's resolution to finally get around to reviewing all the books on my "favorites" shelf, i scrolled through all of 'em until i came to the first "naked" one.
and here we are.
sad, right?
NO! IT IS WONDERFUL! ENVY ME MY FRIDAY NIGHTS!
this book is a must-have for booknerds. along with that nicholas basbanes book, it will get you well on your way to having the best book collection about books. like the one i have.
manguel approaches the concept of the library from all angles: the personal library, the library as institution, the architecture of the library, libraries lost to burning or time, "imaginary" libraries. and all told in this wonderfully anecdotal way that feels so familiar to anyone who appreciates books-as-objects.
i wrote a really long review of this earlier and accidentally deleted it (i blame the painkillers, truly) so i am going to let this book speak for itself.
-we dream of a library of literature created by everyone and belonging to no one, a library that is immortal and will mysteriously lend order to the universe, and yet we know that every orderly choice, every catalogued realm of the imagination, sets up a tyrannical hierarchy of exclusion. every library is exclusionary, since its selection, however vast, leaves outside its walls endless shelves of writing that, for reasons of taste, knowledge, space, and time, have not been included. every library conjures up its own dark ghost. every ordering sets up, in its wake, a shadow library of absences.
-i have no feeling of guilt regarding the books i have not read and perhaps will never read; i know that my books have unlimited patience. they will wait for me till the end of my days
-yet one fearful characteristic of the physical world tempers any optimism that a reader may feel in any ordered library: the constraints of space. it has always been my experience that, whatever groupings i choose for my books, the space in which i plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. in a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. like nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books. this is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and preserve as comprehensive as possible a record of the world, then ultimately its task must be redundant, since it can only be satisfied when the library's borders coincide with those of the world itself.
in my adolescence, i remember watching with a kind of fascinated horror, how night after night the shelves on the wall of my room would fill up, apparently on their own, until no promissory nooks were left. new books, lying flat as in the earliest codex libraries, would begin to pile up one on top of the other. old books, occupying their measured place during the day, would double and quadruple in volume and keep any newcomers at bay. all around me - on the floor, in the corners, under the bed, on my desk - columns of books would slowly rise and transform the space into a saprophyte forest, its sprouting trunks threatening to crowd me out.
later, in my home in toronto, i put up bookshelves just about everywhere - in bedrooms and kitchen, corridors and bathroom. even the covered porch had its shelves, so that my children complained that they felt they required a library card to enter their own home
i was going to type out the rest of that paragraph, but it was so peppered with diacritical marks that my un-computer-savvy self balked. but know that it is adorable. and this gives you incentive to seek it out for yourself.
this book needs to be read.
read it.
i am going to, again.
but now i am going to run away before i accidentally delete this one, too. new year's resolution - i am on my way to you!
me? oh, i just sat at home, nursing a sore back with painkillers, and decided to let my thoughts about cloud atlas percolate a little before writing a review for it, and decided to play a little booknerd game with myself. as part of my new year's resolution to finally get around to reviewing all the books on my "favorites" shelf, i scrolled through all of 'em until i came to the first "naked" one.
and here we are.
sad, right?
NO! IT IS WONDERFUL! ENVY ME MY FRIDAY NIGHTS!
this book is a must-have for booknerds. along with that nicholas basbanes book, it will get you well on your way to having the best book collection about books. like the one i have.
manguel approaches the concept of the library from all angles: the personal library, the library as institution, the architecture of the library, libraries lost to burning or time, "imaginary" libraries. and all told in this wonderfully anecdotal way that feels so familiar to anyone who appreciates books-as-objects.
i wrote a really long review of this earlier and accidentally deleted it (i blame the painkillers, truly) so i am going to let this book speak for itself.
-we dream of a library of literature created by everyone and belonging to no one, a library that is immortal and will mysteriously lend order to the universe, and yet we know that every orderly choice, every catalogued realm of the imagination, sets up a tyrannical hierarchy of exclusion. every library is exclusionary, since its selection, however vast, leaves outside its walls endless shelves of writing that, for reasons of taste, knowledge, space, and time, have not been included. every library conjures up its own dark ghost. every ordering sets up, in its wake, a shadow library of absences.
-i have no feeling of guilt regarding the books i have not read and perhaps will never read; i know that my books have unlimited patience. they will wait for me till the end of my days
-yet one fearful characteristic of the physical world tempers any optimism that a reader may feel in any ordered library: the constraints of space. it has always been my experience that, whatever groupings i choose for my books, the space in which i plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. in a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. like nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books. this is the paradox presented by every general library: that if, to a lesser or greater extent, it intends to accumulate and preserve as comprehensive as possible a record of the world, then ultimately its task must be redundant, since it can only be satisfied when the library's borders coincide with those of the world itself.
in my adolescence, i remember watching with a kind of fascinated horror, how night after night the shelves on the wall of my room would fill up, apparently on their own, until no promissory nooks were left. new books, lying flat as in the earliest codex libraries, would begin to pile up one on top of the other. old books, occupying their measured place during the day, would double and quadruple in volume and keep any newcomers at bay. all around me - on the floor, in the corners, under the bed, on my desk - columns of books would slowly rise and transform the space into a saprophyte forest, its sprouting trunks threatening to crowd me out.
later, in my home in toronto, i put up bookshelves just about everywhere - in bedrooms and kitchen, corridors and bathroom. even the covered porch had its shelves, so that my children complained that they felt they required a library card to enter their own home
i was going to type out the rest of that paragraph, but it was so peppered with diacritical marks that my un-computer-savvy self balked. but know that it is adorable. and this gives you incentive to seek it out for yourself.
this book needs to be read.
read it.
i am going to, again.
but now i am going to run away before i accidentally delete this one, too. new year's resolution - i am on my way to you!
April 28, 2023
3, 5 *.
Lectura poate deveni, uneori, o experien葲膬 total膬. Cartea ca senza葲ie fizic膬:
鈥濼rebuie s膬 permit trezirea celorlalte sim葲uri - trebuie s膬 v膬d 葯i s膬 ating paginile, trebuie s膬 aud pocnetul 葯i f卯葯卯itul h卯rtiei 葯i p卯r卯itul 卯nfrico葯at al cotorului, trebuie s膬 inspir mirosul rafturilor de lemn, parfumul st膬tut al leg膬turilor de piele, aroma acri葯oar膬 a carne葲elelor mele 卯ng膬lbenite鈥� (pp.22-23).
O idee care vine din Borges: 鈥濩膬r葲ile se schimb膬 卯n func葲ie de ordinea 卯n care s卯nt citite. Don Quijote, citit dup膬 Kim, 葯i Don Quijote, citit dup膬 Aventurile lui Huckleberry Finn, s卯nt dou膬 c膬r葲i diferite, nuan葲ele am卯ndurora variind 卯n func葲ie de c膬l膬toriile, prieteniile 葯i aventurile pe care le-a experimentat cititorul. Fiecare dintre aceste volume caleidoscopice se afl膬 卯ntr-o permanent膬 schimbare; fiecare nou膬 lectur膬 le asociaz膬 o nou膬 perspectiv膬, un alt 葯ablon鈥� (p.175).
O carte necitit膬 e un obiect ne卯nsufle葲it. Cititorii o aduc la via葲膬: 鈥濬iecare cititor 卯ncearc膬 s膬 asigure o f膬r卯m膬 de nemurire unei anumite c膬r牛i. Din acest punct de vedere, cititul este un ritual al rena葯terii鈥�.
O anecdot膬 biblic膬 despre suspiciunea maladiv膬 a 卯n葲elep葲ilor. 脦ntr-o carte se poveste葯te c膬 regele Solomon a folosit o lup膬 pentru a vedea dac膬 regina din Saba avea picioare p膬roase (p.225).
Rezumatul unui poem: 鈥灻巒 balada lui Gustav Schwab Der Ritter und der Bodensee, un cavaler trece 卯n galop peste ghea葲a ce acoper膬 lacul Constance 葯i, d卯ndu-葯i seama ce a f膬cut, moare de fric膬 pe cel膬lalt mal鈥�.
脦n rest, o mul葲ime de informa葲ii interesante, prezentate, 丑茅濒补蝉, 卯n mare grab膬...
Lectura poate deveni, uneori, o experien葲膬 total膬. Cartea ca senza葲ie fizic膬:
鈥濼rebuie s膬 permit trezirea celorlalte sim葲uri - trebuie s膬 v膬d 葯i s膬 ating paginile, trebuie s膬 aud pocnetul 葯i f卯葯卯itul h卯rtiei 葯i p卯r卯itul 卯nfrico葯at al cotorului, trebuie s膬 inspir mirosul rafturilor de lemn, parfumul st膬tut al leg膬turilor de piele, aroma acri葯oar膬 a carne葲elelor mele 卯ng膬lbenite鈥� (pp.22-23).
O idee care vine din Borges: 鈥濩膬r葲ile se schimb膬 卯n func葲ie de ordinea 卯n care s卯nt citite. Don Quijote, citit dup膬 Kim, 葯i Don Quijote, citit dup膬 Aventurile lui Huckleberry Finn, s卯nt dou膬 c膬r葲i diferite, nuan葲ele am卯ndurora variind 卯n func葲ie de c膬l膬toriile, prieteniile 葯i aventurile pe care le-a experimentat cititorul. Fiecare dintre aceste volume caleidoscopice se afl膬 卯ntr-o permanent膬 schimbare; fiecare nou膬 lectur膬 le asociaz膬 o nou膬 perspectiv膬, un alt 葯ablon鈥� (p.175).
O carte necitit膬 e un obiect ne卯nsufle葲it. Cititorii o aduc la via葲膬: 鈥濬iecare cititor 卯ncearc膬 s膬 asigure o f膬r卯m膬 de nemurire unei anumite c膬r牛i. Din acest punct de vedere, cititul este un ritual al rena葯terii鈥�.
O anecdot膬 biblic膬 despre suspiciunea maladiv膬 a 卯n葲elep葲ilor. 脦ntr-o carte se poveste葯te c膬 regele Solomon a folosit o lup膬 pentru a vedea dac膬 regina din Saba avea picioare p膬roase (p.225).
Rezumatul unui poem: 鈥灻巒 balada lui Gustav Schwab Der Ritter und der Bodensee, un cavaler trece 卯n galop peste ghea葲a ce acoper膬 lacul Constance 葯i, d卯ndu-葯i seama ce a f膬cut, moare de fric膬 pe cel膬lalt mal鈥�.
脦n rest, o mul葲ime de informa葲ii interesante, prezentate, 丑茅濒补蝉, 卯n mare grab膬...
May 18, 2014
Dreaming The Perfect LIBRARY
The Quest & The Question
The starting point, Manguel says is a question. Few today can doubt that the main features of our universe are its dearth of meaning and lack of discernible purpose.
And yet, with bewildering optimism, we continue to assemble whatever scraps of information we can gather in scrolls and books and computer chips, on shelf after library shelf, whether material, virtual or otherwise, pathetically intent on lending the world a semblance of sense and order, while knowing perfectly well that, however much we鈥檇 like to believe the contrary, our pursuits are sadly doomed to failure.
Why then do we do it? Admitting from the start that the question would most likely remain unanswered, Manguel embarks on it for its own sake. This book is the story of that quest, 鈥渁n account of my astonishment鈥�, as Manguel says 鈥� and it is an astonishing journey for the readers as well.
鈥淪urely we should find it both touching and inspiriting,鈥� wrote over a century ago, 鈥渢hat in a field from which success is banished, our race should not cease to labour.鈥�
Dreaming The Perfect LIBRARY
THE LIBRARY is a lot of things. And since it is quixotic by definition, this reader will now follow a future dream Library as Manguel traces his past, real libraries.
THE LIBRARY AS MYTH 鈥� It should be capable of eliciting in this reader the loftiest of all possible sensations, the sense of the sublime.
Manguel talks of the two great information-gathering projects of Mankind: The and The . These two tower over the rest of the book, constantly reminding the reader and the writer about the magnificent and utile quest that mankind loves to keep re-embraking on.
THE LIBRARY AS ORDER 鈥� can a library ever have any meaningful order?
Subjects upon subjects, each of these subjects will require a classification within its classification. At a certain point in the ordering, out of fatigue, boredom or frustration, this geometrical progression might stop. But the possibility of continuing it is always there. There are no final categories in a library.
For this reader, the only consolation is that a private Library, at best, unlike a public one, presents the minor release of allowing a whimsical and highly personal classification. That is enough.
THE LIBRARY AS SPACE 鈥� Space is never enough a books never stop coming in
Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. This reader wishes for a Library designed on The Brain, using folds and infolds to enfold a million books.
In the second chapter of , Lewis Carroll dreamt up the following solution: 鈥淚f we could only apply that Rule to books! You know, in finding the , we strike out a quantity wherever it occurs, except in the term where it is raised to its highest power. So we should have to erase every recorded thought, except in the sentence where it is expressed with the greatest intensity.鈥澨�
His companion objects: 鈥淪ome books would be reduced to blank paper, I鈥檓 afraid!鈥� 鈥淭hey would,鈥� the narrator admits. 鈥淢ost libraries would be terribly diminished in bulk. But just think what they would gain in quality!鈥�
THE LIBRARY AS POWER 鈥� The invested power of the written word, thrills this reader. Empires can鈥檛 stop building libraries and people cannot stop authoring memoirs. They are the only real sources of lasting power. The Library left behind and the books written, they shall define this reader鈥檚 legacy.
THE LIBRARY AS SHADOW 鈥斕� If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
Every library is a shadow, by definition the result of choice, and necessarily limited in its scope. And every choice excludes another, the choice not made. The act of reading parallels endlessly the act of censorship.
This reader imagines a Library where the censorship is total and the reader is a dictator, a benevolent one.
(This chapter includes a sad tour of The History of Censorship.)
THE LIBRARY AS SHAPE 鈥� 鈥淓very librarian is, up to a certain point, an architect,鈥� observed Michel Melot, director of the Centre Pompidou Library in Paris. 鈥淗e builds up his collection as an ensemble through which the reader must find a path, discover his own self, and live.鈥�
This reader has already said that his Library will be modeled on The Brain.
THE LIBRARY AS CHANCE 鈥� A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Left unattended, books cluster around what called a 鈥済eneral intention鈥� that often escapes readers: 鈥渢he string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.鈥� , anyone?
This reader imagines a Library where the books are left to cluster by chance and then picked up cluster-by-cluster and put back with their intellectual soul-mates.
THE LIBRARY AS WORKSHOP 鈥� The place where you read, and the place where you work. A history of the 鈥榮tudy鈥�.
This reader imagines a cozy nook, nudged within the Library, form where the grandeur is glimpsed but not enough for intimidation. At reach, still far enough away.
In 1929, Virginia Woolf published her now famous lectures on 鈥淲omen and Fiction鈥� under the title , and there she defined forever our need for a private space for reading and writing: 鈥淭he whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness. There must be freedom and there must be peace.鈥� And she added, 鈥淣ot a wheel must grate, not a light glimmer. The curtains must be close drawn.鈥� As if it were night.
A study lends its owner, its privileged reader, what Seneca called euthymia, a Greek word which Seneca explained means 鈥渨ell-being of the soul,鈥� and which he translated as 鈥渢ranquillitas.鈥� Every study ultimately aspires to euthymia.
Euthymia, memory without distraction, the intimacy of a reading time 鈥� This reader can hardly imagine a more perfect Paradise.
THE LIBRARY AS MIND 鈥� What makes a library a reflection of its owner is not merely the choice of the titles themselves, but the mesh of associations implied in the choice.
This reader too will generally know the position of any book by recalling the Library鈥檚 layout.
The remembered order will follow the patterns of my mind, the shape and division of the Library ordered just so by me 鈥� and the Library will in turn reflect the configuration of my mind.
THE LIBRARY AS ISLAND 鈥� The Library, each book in it will be a newly discovered island.
To be the first to enter Circe鈥檚 cave, the first to hear Ulysses call himself Nobody, is every reader鈥檚 secret wish, granted over and over, generation after generation, to those who open the Odyssey for the first time.
This reader accepts that Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone. Even in the most fantastically educated and cultured cities, the number of those for whom reading books is of the essence has always been very small.
What varies is not the proportions of these two groups of humanity, but the way in which different societies regard the book and the art of reading. And here the distinction between the book enthroned and the book read comes again into play. This reader鈥檚 Library will have no books enthroned, but all arrayed to be read.
THE LIBRARY AS SURVIVAL 鈥� On the destruction of books, by burning, drowning and other means. And On Survival
This reader likes to envisage his Library as a magnificent ark that will sail across the ocean of forgetfulness that embraces humanity.
THE LIBRARY AS OBLIVION 鈥� Oblivion through enforced illiteracy; Lost books, lost libraries; Displaced
This reader rejects this possibility.
THE LIBRARY AS IMAGINATION 鈥� The collecting of imaginary books is an ancient occupation.
This reader is sure that his Library will have as many imaginary books as real ones.
THE LIBRARY AS IDENTITY 鈥� Library can be more than a reflection of just personal identity.
In a similar fashion, the identity of a society, or a national identity, can be mirrored by a library, by an assembly of titles that, practically and symbolically, serves as our collective definition.
This reader鈥檚 Library should be a pride for the community and beyond.
THE LIBRARY AS HOME 鈥� A library can be as nourishing as a loving home.
For this reader, his Library is his umbilicus mundi, the navel of his world, the landscape that feeds his imagination, if not his body.
The splendidly cosmopolitan Library of this reader will, in turn, also ensure that the whole world is present right there. He will be at home in his Library and it will also be his World-at-Home
To be One With The LIBRARY
听The conceit that what we can know of reality is an imagination made of language鈥攁ll this finds its material manifestation in that self-portrait we call a library. And our love for it, and our lust to see more of it, and our pride in its accomplishments as we wander through shelves full of books that promise more and more delights, are among our happiest, most moving proofs of possessing, in spite of all the miseries and sorrows of this life, a more intimate, consolatory, perhaps redeeming faith in a method behind the madness than any jealous deity could wish upon us.
Dreaming of the Perfect Library can be therapeutic. Try it.
January 2, 2015
This is the best book to finish the year with.
I have read many great novels this year, but of all of them this last one has become a true friend, one I hope will remain by my bedside, to comfort and inspire me when darkness rules outside my shelter.
Review to follow. Until then, here's a few of the many quotes I saved :
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but this space of books remains in existence. To someone standing outside, in the garden, the library at night appears like a vast vessel of some sort, like that strange Chinese villa that, in 1888, the capricious Empress Cixi caused to be built in the shape of a ship marooned in a garden lake of her Summer Palace. In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.
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Immensely generous, my books make no demands on me but offer all kind of illuminations.
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My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. No doubt these stories exist on the page equally during the day but, perhaps because of nighttime's acquaintance with phantom appearances and telltale dreams, they become more vividly present after the sun has set.
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I have read many great novels this year, but of all of them this last one has become a true friend, one I hope will remain by my bedside, to comfort and inspire me when darkness rules outside my shelter.
Review to follow. Until then, here's a few of the many quotes I saved :
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but this space of books remains in existence. To someone standing outside, in the garden, the library at night appears like a vast vessel of some sort, like that strange Chinese villa that, in 1888, the capricious Empress Cixi caused to be built in the shape of a ship marooned in a garden lake of her Summer Palace. In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.
---
Immensely generous, my books make no demands on me but offer all kind of illuminations.
---
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. No doubt these stories exist on the page equally during the day but, perhaps because of nighttime's acquaintance with phantom appearances and telltale dreams, they become more vividly present after the sun has set.
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July 4, 2015
I once dreamt an entire novel. It was brilliant - a mystery replete with private eyes, conniving crooks, and a plot line convoluted by betrayals and double-agentry galore. It was vivid. I woke up wondering where I was, which almost never happens, groggy and disoriented. It was difficult to gauge my place in reality. This dream had really enveloped my mind. I got out of bed and looked for a notebook so that I could take notes, but as I did so, the memory of the dream collapsed in on itself like a black hole. I tried to write some notes down, but it was gone. Gone. It was absolutely brilliant, and I'll never see it again.
This book is like that. A dream for book lovers, lovers of libraries. Upon finishing, you will remember that it was brilliant, that it was all-engrossing, that you lived in it, you will have faint wisps of memories of pure genius and some of the most beautiful, languorous writing you have ever read, the sparks generated by the book will linger in your mind like latent spots phosphorescing on your eyes after seeing fireworks in the dark.
Thankfully, this dreamscape is subject to recall, since it is all written down. It is, in this way, like a library itself. Re-opening it is a resurrection of ideas - an intellectual miracle. I, for one, will worship at that altar. And this, from Manguel, will be my credo:
It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us, and storing them for future readers. So much has been named, so much will continue to be named, that in spite of our foolishness we will not give up this small miracle that allows the ghost of an understanding. Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination. It may be that there is no book, however well written, that can remove an ounce of pain from the tragedy of Iraq or Rwanda, but it may also be that there is no book, however foully written, that does not allow an epiphany for its destined reader. Robinson Crusoe explains, "It may not be amiss for all people who shall meet my story to make this just observation from it, viz., how frequently in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into it, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very same means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again." This, of course, is not Crusoe speaking, but Defoe - the reader of so many books.
This book is like that. A dream for book lovers, lovers of libraries. Upon finishing, you will remember that it was brilliant, that it was all-engrossing, that you lived in it, you will have faint wisps of memories of pure genius and some of the most beautiful, languorous writing you have ever read, the sparks generated by the book will linger in your mind like latent spots phosphorescing on your eyes after seeing fireworks in the dark.
Thankfully, this dreamscape is subject to recall, since it is all written down. It is, in this way, like a library itself. Re-opening it is a resurrection of ideas - an intellectual miracle. I, for one, will worship at that altar. And this, from Manguel, will be my credo:
It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us, and storing them for future readers. So much has been named, so much will continue to be named, that in spite of our foolishness we will not give up this small miracle that allows the ghost of an understanding. Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination. It may be that there is no book, however well written, that can remove an ounce of pain from the tragedy of Iraq or Rwanda, but it may also be that there is no book, however foully written, that does not allow an epiphany for its destined reader. Robinson Crusoe explains, "It may not be amiss for all people who shall meet my story to make this just observation from it, viz., how frequently in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into it, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very same means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again." This, of course, is not Crusoe speaking, but Defoe - the reader of so many books.
March 23, 2016
The library in which I have at long last collected my books began life as a barn sometime in the fifteen century, perched on a small hill south of the Loire. Here, in the last years before the Christian era, the Romans erected a temple to Dionysus to honour the god of this wine-producing area; twelve centuries later, a Christian church replaced the god of drunken ecstasy with the god who turned his blood into wine鈥� .
What a splendid beginning to a book about libraries. But Alberto Mangruel now he鈥檚 a true bibliophile. Imagine having his own library designed for him and in the Loire, one of the most beautiful parts of France. There鈥檚 such a serenity about the area.
I have a fascination with libraries: be they private libraries or those of friends. I get a sense of anticipation as soon as I see the numerous shelves full of books. The problem always arises 鈥� which direction to take? And which books do I want to browse through?
I love books but I would not consider myself a bibliophile in the true sense of the word. I lean more towards addiction. I take after my father in this respect. We used to browse through the second-hand book shops in Charing Cross Road from the time I was in my teens and more or less up until his death, depending whether I was in the country or not at the time.
If I see a book I like, personally I prefer second hand hardbacks as they all have a history, I鈥檒l automatically buy it. Nevertheless, I have made huge mistakes in the past in this regard as some books have not turned out as I imagined they would.
Before reading this book though I had to systematically go through all the images. I was sad to see that they were all black and white as I鈥檓 a visual person and love to see colour. It seems to add something to the fabric be it either a painting, photo, brochure, whatever. But then that鈥檚 my own personal choice.
There鈥檚 a wonderful photograph of Charles Dickens in his library in Gad鈥檚 Hill. He鈥檚 sitting at his desk, bookshelves surrounding him and contemplating. Perhaps another book?
A contemporary cartoon depicts a book-burning in Nazi Germany.
An engraving copied from a no longer extant Roman bas-relief, depicting the methods for storing scrolls.
However, seeing the images of public libraries, admittedly somewhat imposing, of for example, The King鈥檚 Library in Buckingham House in London, The Laurentian Library designed by Michaelangelo, the book-shaped towers of the Biblioth猫que de France鈥as a true delight for me. Such different styles of architecture.
But my favourite photo has to be that of Jorge Luis Borges at his desk in the Buenos Aires National Library.
Nevertheless, out of all the libraries portrayed in this marvellous book, it is the ancient library and latterly the modern library of Alexandria that fascinated me. Originating at the time of the Ptolemaic kings who set up a learning centre there at the end of the third century BC and eventually finally burning down.
There appear to be various interpretations of the burning of the library but the following seems to be the most likely:
The first person blamed for the destruction of the Library is none other than Julius Caesar himself. In 48 BC, Caesar was pursuing Pompey into Egypt when he was suddenly cut off by an Egyptian fleet at Alexandria. Greatly outnumbered and in enemy territory, Caesar ordered the ships in the harbor to be set on fire. The fire spread and destroyed the Egyptian fleet. Unfortunately, it also burned down part of the city - the area where the great Library stood. Caesar wrote of starting the fire in the harbour but neglected to mention the burning of the Library.
As for the new library of Alexandria, talks began in the 70s to build it and it finally reopened in October 2002.
An international design competition chose the Norwegian firm Snohetta to build the library. The building鈥攊n the shape of a massive disc inclined toward the Mediterranean鈥攅vokes the image of the Egyptian sun illuminating the world.
I was in Aswan on holiday in 1991 awaiting a flight to Cairo. We were all sitting on the plane and in the distance several limousines could be seen heading towards the plane. A red carpet was rolled out and President Mubarak and Queen Noor walked to what I guess, must have been the first class section in the plane. People began talking excitedly and it transpired that they were heading to Alexandra for discussions on the new library. It was a wonderful sight to see the red carpet like that.
As an aside, I was delighted to read though that Mangruel continued to have a problem with the dust in his library. I seem to dust books all the time.
I cannot go into detail about all the excellent stories, books and individuals contained herein but this is certainly one of those books to be reread and many times too.
Yes a library is indeed a wonderful place to read at night鈥�
What a splendid beginning to a book about libraries. But Alberto Mangruel now he鈥檚 a true bibliophile. Imagine having his own library designed for him and in the Loire, one of the most beautiful parts of France. There鈥檚 such a serenity about the area.
I have a fascination with libraries: be they private libraries or those of friends. I get a sense of anticipation as soon as I see the numerous shelves full of books. The problem always arises 鈥� which direction to take? And which books do I want to browse through?
I love books but I would not consider myself a bibliophile in the true sense of the word. I lean more towards addiction. I take after my father in this respect. We used to browse through the second-hand book shops in Charing Cross Road from the time I was in my teens and more or less up until his death, depending whether I was in the country or not at the time.
If I see a book I like, personally I prefer second hand hardbacks as they all have a history, I鈥檒l automatically buy it. Nevertheless, I have made huge mistakes in the past in this regard as some books have not turned out as I imagined they would.
Before reading this book though I had to systematically go through all the images. I was sad to see that they were all black and white as I鈥檓 a visual person and love to see colour. It seems to add something to the fabric be it either a painting, photo, brochure, whatever. But then that鈥檚 my own personal choice.
There鈥檚 a wonderful photograph of Charles Dickens in his library in Gad鈥檚 Hill. He鈥檚 sitting at his desk, bookshelves surrounding him and contemplating. Perhaps another book?
A contemporary cartoon depicts a book-burning in Nazi Germany.
An engraving copied from a no longer extant Roman bas-relief, depicting the methods for storing scrolls.
However, seeing the images of public libraries, admittedly somewhat imposing, of for example, The King鈥檚 Library in Buckingham House in London, The Laurentian Library designed by Michaelangelo, the book-shaped towers of the Biblioth猫que de France鈥as a true delight for me. Such different styles of architecture.
But my favourite photo has to be that of Jorge Luis Borges at his desk in the Buenos Aires National Library.
Nevertheless, out of all the libraries portrayed in this marvellous book, it is the ancient library and latterly the modern library of Alexandria that fascinated me. Originating at the time of the Ptolemaic kings who set up a learning centre there at the end of the third century BC and eventually finally burning down.
There appear to be various interpretations of the burning of the library but the following seems to be the most likely:
The first person blamed for the destruction of the Library is none other than Julius Caesar himself. In 48 BC, Caesar was pursuing Pompey into Egypt when he was suddenly cut off by an Egyptian fleet at Alexandria. Greatly outnumbered and in enemy territory, Caesar ordered the ships in the harbor to be set on fire. The fire spread and destroyed the Egyptian fleet. Unfortunately, it also burned down part of the city - the area where the great Library stood. Caesar wrote of starting the fire in the harbour but neglected to mention the burning of the Library.
As for the new library of Alexandria, talks began in the 70s to build it and it finally reopened in October 2002.
An international design competition chose the Norwegian firm Snohetta to build the library. The building鈥攊n the shape of a massive disc inclined toward the Mediterranean鈥攅vokes the image of the Egyptian sun illuminating the world.
I was in Aswan on holiday in 1991 awaiting a flight to Cairo. We were all sitting on the plane and in the distance several limousines could be seen heading towards the plane. A red carpet was rolled out and President Mubarak and Queen Noor walked to what I guess, must have been the first class section in the plane. People began talking excitedly and it transpired that they were heading to Alexandra for discussions on the new library. It was a wonderful sight to see the red carpet like that.
As an aside, I was delighted to read though that Mangruel continued to have a problem with the dust in his library. I seem to dust books all the time.
I cannot go into detail about all the excellent stories, books and individuals contained herein but this is certainly one of those books to be reread and many times too.
Yes a library is indeed a wonderful place to read at night鈥�
February 1, 2018
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丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賰匕賱賰 鬲賱賯賶 匕丕鬲 丕賱廿賴賲丕賱貙 賳丕丿乇丕賸 賲丕 賳賯乇兀 毓賳賴丕貙 賰兀賳賲丕 賳亘鬲 賰賱 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賲丐賱賮賷賳 亘賱丕 賰鬲亘貙 賰兀賳賲丕 賵賱丿鬲 賮賷 兀賮賵丕賴賴賲 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲貙 賵賱賲 賷乇囟毓賵賴丕 賲賳匕 丕賱氐睾乇 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 毓卮乇丕鬲 賵乇亘賲丕 賲卅丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賵賱賰賳 丨馗賳丕 賰賯乇丕亍 毓乇亘 鬲睾賷乇 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賲貙 賲毓 賳卮乇 賰鬲丕亘賷賳 賷鬲賳丕賵賱丕賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱賰鬲亘貙 丕賱兀賵賱 賴賵 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 匕賵 丕賱毓賳賵丕賳 丕賱賲睾乇賷 賱兀賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱貙 賵丕賱孬丕賳賷 賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 賴賳乇賷 賲賷賱乇 (丕賱賰鬲亘 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賷) 鈥� 丕賱匕賷 兀毓賰賮 毓賱賶 賯乇丕亍鬲賴 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賷丕賲 -.
賵乇睾賲 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱乇丿賷卅丞貙 賵乇睾賲 丕賱鬲卮鬲鬲 丕賱匕賷 賳毓乇賮賴 毓賳 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 廿賱丕 兀賳賳賷 兀丨亘亘鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱兀賳賴 亘亘爻丕胤丞 賷賱賲爻 賰賱 賲賳 賷賲鬲賱賰 賲賰鬲亘丞 睾賷乇 丿賷賰賵乇賷丞貙 賲賰鬲亘丞 亘賳賷鬲 毓賱賶 賲丿賶 爻賳賵丕鬲貙 乇鬲亘鬲 亘賲賳胤賯 賲毓賷賳貙 賯乇兀鬲 賵賯賱亘鬲 賰鬲亘賴丕 亘卮睾賮貙 廿賳賴丕 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳賲丕乇爻賴丕 賮賷 馗賱丕賱 丌賱丕賮 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱噩丕孬賲丞貙 孬賲 賳乇丕賴丕 賲賳毓賰爻丞 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘貙 賱鬲賯賵賱 賱賳丕 廿賳賳丕 賱爻賳丕 賵丨丿賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賴賵爻貙 賵兀賳賴 賴賳丕賰 兀丨丿 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 鬲賵賯賮 賱賷賰鬲亘 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 丕賱噩丕卅賱丞 賮賷 兀匕賴丕賳賳丕.
賴賰匕丕 賳賲囟賷 賮賷 噩賵賱丞 噩賲賷賱丞貙 鬲兀禺匕賳丕 賲賳 兀亘爻胤 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍貙 賲孬賱 丕賱賮乇賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵囟毓 毓賱賶 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱毓賱賷丕貙 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵囟毓 毓賱賶 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱丿賳賷丕貙 賵賱氐賯丞 丕賱爻毓乇 丕賱鬲賷 鬲孬賷乇 睾賷馗 賰賱 賲丨亘 賱賱賰鬲亘貙 賵禺丕氐丞 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賵囟毓 亘廿賴賲丕賱 毓賱賶 丕賱睾賱丕賮 丕賱禺賱賮賷 賱鬲丨噩亘 噩夭亍賸 賲賳 賳亘匕丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賵賰匕丕 賰賷賮 賷賮乇囟 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賯賵丕賳賷賳賴 毓賱賶 鬲乇鬲賷亘 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賮鬲囟胤乇 廿賱賶 丿賲噩 賵鬲睾賷賷乇 丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘 賮賯胤 賱鬲丨氐賱 毓賱賶 卮賷亍 賲賳 丕賱乇囟丕 賵丕賱賲賳胤賯貙 賳賲囟賷 亘毓丿 賴匕丕 廿賱賶 兀卮賴乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賲孬賱 賲賰鬲亘丞 丌卮賵乇 亘丕賳賷亘丕賱貙 賵賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 賵賲氐賷乇賴丕 丕賱丨夭賷賳貙 賵賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴丕 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 賲孬賱 賲賰鬲亘丞 賮丕乇亘賵乇睾 丕賱賲乇鬲亘丞 亘胤乇賷賯丞 賲賲賷夭丞 兀匕賴賱鬲 丕賱賮賷賱爻賵賮 賰丕爻賷乇乇 毓賳丿賲丕 夭丕乇賴丕 賱丿乇噩丞 兀賳賴 賯丕賱 "爻賵賮 賱賳 兀毓賵丿 廿賱賶 賴賳丕 孬丕賳賷丞 兀亘丿丕賸貙 廿匕丕 乇噩毓鬲 廿賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱賲鬲丕賴丞貙 爻兀賳鬲賴賷 廿賱賶 丕賱囟賷丕毓".
賯乇兀鬲 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷丕賸貙 賵賱賰賳賷 丨氐賱鬲 毓賱賶 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 賰賴丿賷丞 賲賳 丕賱氐丿賷賯 毓亘丿丕賱賱賴 丕賱匕賷 鬲卮乇賮鬲 亘賱賯丕卅賴 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賮賷 賲毓乇囟 丕賱乇賷丕囟 賱賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賴賰匕丕 賷賲賳丨 賲賰鬲亘賷 噩賲賷賱 賰鬲丕亘丕賸 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賱兀賳賴 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲睾乇賯 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 鬲亘賯賶 丕賱噩匕賵丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲卮毓賱賴丕 賮賷 丿丕禺賱賳丕 賲鬲兀噩噩丞.
丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱:
佟伽/ 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱毓賱賷丕 賵丕賱丿賳賷丕 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞
佟侉/ 賰鬲亘賷 鬲囟賲 亘賷賳 兀睾賱賮鬲賴丕 賰賱 賯氐丞 爻賲毓鬲賴丕 賵賲丕 夭賱鬲 兀鬲匕賰乇賴丕貙 兀賵 賴賷 丕賱丌賳 賲賳爻賷丞貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 爻鬲賯乇兀 匕丕鬲 賷賵賲.
佗佟/ 賱氐賯丞 丕賱爻毓乇貙 丕賱賮乇賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賲鬲毓賱賲 賵丕賱賯丕乇卅
佗伲/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱丕爻賰賳丿乇賷丞
佗侉/ 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳 賷乇丕丿 賱賴丕 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 丨丕賮馗丞 賱匕丕賰乇丞 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賱賲 鬲賰賳 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丨賮馗 匕丕賰乇鬲賴丕 賴賷 賳賮爻賴丕.
伲伲/ 丿賲丕乇 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱丕爻賰賳丿乇賷丞
伲侑/ 賱丕 兀鬲匕賰乇 賵賯鬲丕賸 賱賲 兀賰賳 賮賷賴 賲丨丕胤丕賸 亘賰鬲亘賷
佶佴/ 鬲氐賳賷賮 丿賷賵賷
佴伽/ 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賷賮乇囟 丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘
佴佴/ 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賶 丕賱兀丿亘 賲賳 丕賱丿乇噩丞 丕賱孬丕賳賷丞
佴侉/ 丕賳賯丕匕 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲賳 丕賱乇賲賷
侉贍/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 賰丕乇賳賷噩賷
侃伲/ 賰賱 賲賰鬲亘丞 廿賯氐丕卅賷丞
侃侉/ 賲賳毓 賵丨乇賯 丕賱賰鬲亘 毓亘乇 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺
佟佶侃/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 賮丕乇亘賵乇睾
佗贍佴/ 賲毓丕賱噩丞 丕賱賰鬲亘
佗伲佴/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 賴鬲賱乇
賱賲 兀賮賴賲 丨鬲賶 丕賱丌賳 賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 賱賱賰鬲賹丕亘 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 毓賳 賰賱 卮賷亍貙 孬賲 賱丕 賷賰鬲亘賵賳 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 匕丕鬲賴丕貙 毓賳 賲丕 賷賳鬲噩賵賳賴貙 毓賳 賲丕 賷乇亘胤賳丕 亘賴賲 丨賯丕賸貙 賱賰賱 賲丐賱賮 賯氐丞 賲毓 丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賰賷賮 賷賯乇丐賴丕 ! 賵賰賷賮 賷賰鬲亘賴丕 ! 賵賱賰賳賴賲 賱賱兀爻賮 賯賱賷賱丕賸 賲丕 賷賰鬲亘賵賳 毓賳 賴匕丕貙 賷鬲乇賰賵賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賲賴賲丞 賱賲賳 爻賷賰鬲亘賵賳 爻賷乇鬲賴賲 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 毓賳丿賲丕 賷卮賷禺賵賳貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 亘毓丿賲丕 賷賲賵鬲賵賳.
丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賰匕賱賰 鬲賱賯賶 匕丕鬲 丕賱廿賴賲丕賱貙 賳丕丿乇丕賸 賲丕 賳賯乇兀 毓賳賴丕貙 賰兀賳賲丕 賳亘鬲 賰賱 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賲丐賱賮賷賳 亘賱丕 賰鬲亘貙 賰兀賳賲丕 賵賱丿鬲 賮賷 兀賮賵丕賴賴賲 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲貙 賵賱賲 賷乇囟毓賵賴丕 賲賳匕 丕賱氐睾乇 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 毓卮乇丕鬲 賵乇亘賲丕 賲卅丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賵賱賰賳 丨馗賳丕 賰賯乇丕亍 毓乇亘 鬲睾賷乇 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賲貙 賲毓 賳卮乇 賰鬲丕亘賷賳 賷鬲賳丕賵賱丕賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱賰鬲亘貙 丕賱兀賵賱 賴賵 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 匕賵 丕賱毓賳賵丕賳 丕賱賲睾乇賷 賱兀賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱貙 賵丕賱孬丕賳賷 賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 賴賳乇賷 賲賷賱乇 (丕賱賰鬲亘 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賷) 鈥� 丕賱匕賷 兀毓賰賮 毓賱賶 賯乇丕亍鬲賴 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賷丕賲 -.
賵乇睾賲 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱乇丿賷卅丞貙 賵乇睾賲 丕賱鬲卮鬲鬲 丕賱匕賷 賳毓乇賮賴 毓賳 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 廿賱丕 兀賳賳賷 兀丨亘亘鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱兀賳賴 亘亘爻丕胤丞 賷賱賲爻 賰賱 賲賳 賷賲鬲賱賰 賲賰鬲亘丞 睾賷乇 丿賷賰賵乇賷丞貙 賲賰鬲亘丞 亘賳賷鬲 毓賱賶 賲丿賶 爻賳賵丕鬲貙 乇鬲亘鬲 亘賲賳胤賯 賲毓賷賳貙 賯乇兀鬲 賵賯賱亘鬲 賰鬲亘賴丕 亘卮睾賮貙 廿賳賴丕 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳賲丕乇爻賴丕 賮賷 馗賱丕賱 丌賱丕賮 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱噩丕孬賲丞貙 孬賲 賳乇丕賴丕 賲賳毓賰爻丞 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘貙 賱鬲賯賵賱 賱賳丕 廿賳賳丕 賱爻賳丕 賵丨丿賳丕 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賴賵爻貙 賵兀賳賴 賴賳丕賰 兀丨丿 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 鬲賵賯賮 賱賷賰鬲亘 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 丕賱噩丕卅賱丞 賮賷 兀匕賴丕賳賳丕.
賴賰匕丕 賳賲囟賷 賮賷 噩賵賱丞 噩賲賷賱丞貙 鬲兀禺匕賳丕 賲賳 兀亘爻胤 丕賱兀卮賷丕亍貙 賲孬賱 丕賱賮乇賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵囟毓 毓賱賶 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱毓賱賷丕貙 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賵囟毓 毓賱賶 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱丿賳賷丕貙 賵賱氐賯丞 丕賱爻毓乇 丕賱鬲賷 鬲孬賷乇 睾賷馗 賰賱 賲丨亘 賱賱賰鬲亘貙 賵禺丕氐丞 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賵囟毓 亘廿賴賲丕賱 毓賱賶 丕賱睾賱丕賮 丕賱禺賱賮賷 賱鬲丨噩亘 噩夭亍賸 賲賳 賳亘匕丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賵賰匕丕 賰賷賮 賷賮乇囟 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賯賵丕賳賷賳賴 毓賱賶 鬲乇鬲賷亘 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賮鬲囟胤乇 廿賱賶 丿賲噩 賵鬲睾賷賷乇 丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘 賮賯胤 賱鬲丨氐賱 毓賱賶 卮賷亍 賲賳 丕賱乇囟丕 賵丕賱賲賳胤賯貙 賳賲囟賷 亘毓丿 賴匕丕 廿賱賶 兀卮賴乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賲孬賱 賲賰鬲亘丞 丌卮賵乇 亘丕賳賷亘丕賱貙 賵賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 賵賲氐賷乇賴丕 丕賱丨夭賷賳貙 賵賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴丕 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 賲孬賱 賲賰鬲亘丞 賮丕乇亘賵乇睾 丕賱賲乇鬲亘丞 亘胤乇賷賯丞 賲賲賷夭丞 兀匕賴賱鬲 丕賱賮賷賱爻賵賮 賰丕爻賷乇乇 毓賳丿賲丕 夭丕乇賴丕 賱丿乇噩丞 兀賳賴 賯丕賱 "爻賵賮 賱賳 兀毓賵丿 廿賱賶 賴賳丕 孬丕賳賷丞 兀亘丿丕賸貙 廿匕丕 乇噩毓鬲 廿賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱賲鬲丕賴丞貙 爻兀賳鬲賴賷 廿賱賶 丕賱囟賷丕毓".
賯乇兀鬲 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷丕賸貙 賵賱賰賳賷 丨氐賱鬲 毓賱賶 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賵乇賯賷丞 賰賴丿賷丞 賲賳 丕賱氐丿賷賯 毓亘丿丕賱賱賴 丕賱匕賷 鬲卮乇賮鬲 亘賱賯丕卅賴 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賮賷 賲毓乇囟 丕賱乇賷丕囟 賱賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賴賰匕丕 賷賲賳丨 賲賰鬲亘賷 噩賲賷賱 賰鬲丕亘丕賸 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賱兀賳賴 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲睾乇賯 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 鬲亘賯賶 丕賱噩匕賵丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲卮毓賱賴丕 賮賷 丿丕禺賱賳丕 賲鬲兀噩噩丞.
丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱:
佟伽/ 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱毓賱賷丕 賵丕賱丿賳賷丕 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞
佟侉/ 賰鬲亘賷 鬲囟賲 亘賷賳 兀睾賱賮鬲賴丕 賰賱 賯氐丞 爻賲毓鬲賴丕 賵賲丕 夭賱鬲 兀鬲匕賰乇賴丕貙 兀賵 賴賷 丕賱丌賳 賲賳爻賷丞貙 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 爻鬲賯乇兀 匕丕鬲 賷賵賲.
佗佟/ 賱氐賯丞 丕賱爻毓乇貙 丕賱賮乇賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賲鬲毓賱賲 賵丕賱賯丕乇卅
佗伲/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱丕爻賰賳丿乇賷丞
佗侉/ 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳 賷乇丕丿 賱賴丕 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 丨丕賮馗丞 賱匕丕賰乇丞 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賱賲 鬲賰賳 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丨賮馗 匕丕賰乇鬲賴丕 賴賷 賳賮爻賴丕.
伲伲/ 丿賲丕乇 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱丕爻賰賳丿乇賷丞
伲侑/ 賱丕 兀鬲匕賰乇 賵賯鬲丕賸 賱賲 兀賰賳 賮賷賴 賲丨丕胤丕賸 亘賰鬲亘賷
佶佴/ 鬲氐賳賷賮 丿賷賵賷
佴伽/ 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賷賮乇囟 丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘
佴佴/ 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賶 丕賱兀丿亘 賲賳 丕賱丿乇噩丞 丕賱孬丕賳賷丞
佴侉/ 丕賳賯丕匕 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲賳 丕賱乇賲賷
侉贍/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 賰丕乇賳賷噩賷
侃伲/ 賰賱 賲賰鬲亘丞 廿賯氐丕卅賷丞
侃侉/ 賲賳毓 賵丨乇賯 丕賱賰鬲亘 毓亘乇 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺
佟佶侃/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 賮丕乇亘賵乇睾
佗贍佴/ 賲毓丕賱噩丞 丕賱賰鬲亘
佗伲佴/ 賲賰鬲亘丞 賴鬲賱乇
April 11, 2013
亘毓丿 賯乇丕亍丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賮賰賱 賲賳丕 爻賷乇賶 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 亘卮賰賱 賲睾丕賷乇 賵 爻賷噩乇賷 亘賷賳賴 賵 亘賷賳 賰鬲亘賴 丨賵丕乇 賲賳 賳賵毓 丌禺乇 賮賷賴 賲賳 丕賱卮賰乇 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賵 賲賳 丕賱丕爻鬲賮爻丕乇丕鬲 丕賱賰孬賷乇 毓賳 賰賱 匕賰乇賶 乇丕賮賯鬲 賰鬲丕亘丕 賲丕 賵 毓賳 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷囟賲賴丕 賳賮賻爻 賰賱 賰鬲丕亘...
賰鬲丕亘 噩毓賱 賲賳賴 丕賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賷賱 賲賵爻賵毓丞 賲氐睾乇丞 賱兀賴賲 丕賱賲賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賱賰賳 亘卮賰賱 卮禺氐賷 賷乇鬲亘胤 亘丕賱兀賮乇丕丿 賲賲鬲毓 丕賱丨丿賷孬 .毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 毓賳 丕賱賵乇賯 賮賷 馗賱 丕賱鬲賰賳賵賱賵噩賷丕 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 .
賰鬲丕亘 噩毓賱 賲賳賴 丕賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賷賱 賲賵爻賵毓丞 賲氐睾乇丞 賱兀賴賲 丕賱賲賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賱賰賳 亘卮賰賱 卮禺氐賷 賷乇鬲亘胤 亘丕賱兀賮乇丕丿 賲賲鬲毓 丕賱丨丿賷孬 .毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 毓賳 丕賱賵乇賯 賮賷 馗賱 丕賱鬲賰賳賵賱賵噩賷丕 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 .
October 27, 2015
賰鬲丕亘 爻丕丨乇 賵毓丕賱賲賴 賯乇賷亘 賲賳 丕賱賯賱亘.
April 27, 2009
For anyone who loves books and reading this book will probably be delightful. I'm pretty sure that except for the intricacies of cataloging books (and how to be king of the file clerks in a company, something I'm going to forget I ever had the misfortune to learn as soon as the class is over, so we'll ignore that) everything I've learned in my 3 semesters of Library School is in this book, and generally presented in a much more enjoyable manner than any of the things I've been required to read so far. Unfortunately at the end of the book isn't an MLS, and this book cost me twenty bucks as opposed to whatever school is going to end up costing, but oh well. All of the great stuff about books and libraries without all of the bullshit or the inane questions and concerns of ones peers.
October 21, 2016
"... n茫o busco nenhuma revela莽茫o, pois tudo o que me 茅 dito 茅 necessariamente limitado pelo que sou capaz de ouvir e entender. Nem busco conhecimento al茅m daquele que, de algum modo secreto, j谩 possuo. Nem ilumina莽茫o, a que n茫o posso razoavelmente aspirar. Nem experi锚ncia, pois, em 煤ltima inst芒ncia, s贸 posso ter consci锚ncia do que j谩 est谩 dentro de mim. Ent茫o que procuro eu no fim da hist贸ria da minha biblioteca?
Consola莽茫o, talvez. Talvez consola莽茫o."
Sempre que ou莽o falar de um livro sobre livros, bibliotecas, leitores, escritores corro 脿 livraria e come莽o a l锚-lo de imediato. Tirando os de Vila-Matas, este 茅 o que mais prazer me deu ler sobre este tema.
Enquanto organiza a sua biblioteca, de mais de quarenta mil livros (que inveja!), Manguel conta-nos "Mil e Uma" hist贸rias reais deste Mundo Maravilhoso.
Nunca me aborreceu; aprendi muito e algumas vezes fiquei de l谩grimas nos olhos.
Dos quinze cap铆tulos em que Manguel organizou o ensaio, partilho alguns excertos:
A Biblioteca como Mito
"Os meus livros guardam entre as suas capas todas as hist贸rias que j谩 conheci e ainda recordo, ou que entretanto esqueci ou poderei um dia ler; preenchem o espa莽o que me envolve com vozes antigas e novas."
A Biblioteca como Ordem
"Uma biblioteca 茅 uma entidade em eterno crescimento; multiplica-se aparentemente sozinha, reproduz-se por via da compra, do roubo, do empr茅stimo, de ofertas, pela sugest茫o de lacunas a que se chega por associa莽茫o, pela sua exig锚ncia de algum tipo de conclus茫o."
A Biblioteca como Espa莽o
"H谩 livros antigos que conhecemos mas n茫o possu铆mos e que se cruzam no nosso caminho e se convidam. E livros novos que tentam seduzir-nos diariamente com t铆tulos tentadores e capas irresist铆veis."
A Biblioteca como Poder
"O poder dos leitores n茫o reside na sua capacidade de reunir informa莽茫o, na sua aptid茫o para ordenar e catalogar, mas no seu dom de interpretar, associar e transformar o que l锚em."
A Biblioteca como Sombra
"Sonhamos com uma biblioteca de literatura que seja criada por todos e n茫o perten莽a a ningu茅m, uma biblioteca que seja imortal e, misteriosamente d锚 ordem ao universo."
A Biblioteca como Forma
"O espa莽o onde guardamos os nossos livros muda, por sua vez, a nossa rela莽茫o com eles. N茫o lemos livros da mesma maneira sentados no meio de um c铆rculo ou de um quadrado, numa sala com tecto baixo ou numa sala com vigas altas."
A Biblioteca como Acaso
"Uma biblioteca n茫o 茅 s贸 um lugar de ordem e caos; tamb茅m 茅 o reino do acaso. Mesmo depois de lhes atribuirmos uma prateleira e um n煤mero, os livros ret锚m uma mobilidade pr贸pria. Entregues a si mesmos, formam grupos inesperados; seguem regras secretas de semelhan莽a, genealogias que nenhuma cr贸nica regista, interesses e temas comuns."
A Biblioteca como Oficina
"Tendo em conta que [Jorge Luis] Borges dizia que o universo era um livro e que imaginava o para铆so 芦sob a forma de uma biblioteca禄, quem o visitava esperava uma casa copiosamente forrada a livros (...) O que se descobria era, pelo contr谩rio, aquele apartamento modesto onde os livros ocupavam um lugar discreto e ordeiro.
Aquelas poucas estantes eram, apesar de tudo, o orgulho de Borges. 芦Vou-te contar um segredo禄, explicou-me certo dia. 芦Gosto de fingir que n茫o sou cego e cobi莽o livros como um homem capaz de ver.禄
A Biblioteca como Mente
"O que torna uma biblioteca o reflexo do seu propriet谩rio n茫o 茅 simplesmente a escolha dos t铆tulos, mas a trama de associa莽玫es impl铆citas nessa escolha. A nossa experi锚ncia faz-se de experi锚ncias, a nossa mem贸ria de outras mem贸rias. Os nossos livros decorrem de outros livros, que os mudam ou enriquecem, que lhes atribuem uma cronologia diferente da dos dicion谩rios liter谩rios."
A Biblioteca como Ilha
"...seleccionamos este ou aquele volume por nenhuma raz茫o discern铆vel: por causa de uma capa, de um t铆tulo, de um nome, por algo que algu茅m disse ou n茫o disse, por causa de um palpite, de um capricho, de um erro, por pensarmos que encontraremos no livro uma hist贸ria ou uma personagem ou um pormenor especial, por acreditarmos que foi escrito para n贸s, por acreditarmos que foi escrito para toda a gente menos n贸s e queremos saber porque 茅 que fomos exclu铆dos, por querermos apreender, ou rir, ou entregar-nos ao esquecimento."
A Biblioteca como Sobreviv锚ncia
"No campo de concentra莽茫o de Bergen-Belsen, os prisioneiros circulavam entre si um exemplar d'A Montanha M谩gica de Thomas Mann. Um rapaz lembrava-se do per铆odo que lhe era permitido ter o livro nas m茫os como 芦um dos pontos altos do dia, quando algu茅m mo passava. Ia para um canto para estar em paz e, depois, tinha uma hora para o ler.禄 Outra v铆tima polaca muito jovem, recordando os dias de medo e desalento, teve a dizer o seguinte: 芦O livro era o meu melhor amigo, nunca me tra铆a, reconfortava-me quando eu desesperava, dizia-me que eu n茫o estava sozinho.禄"
A Biblioteca como Esquecimento
"Em Abril de 2003, o ex茅rcito anglo-americano ficou a assistir impavidamente enquanto os Arquivos Nacionais, o Museu Arqueol贸gico e a Biblioteca Nacional de Bagdade eram saqueados e pilhados. Em poucas horas, muita da mais antiga hist贸ria da humanidade registada se perdeu no esquecimento."
A Biblioteca como Imagina莽茫o
"Na luz, lemos as inven莽玫es de outros; na escurid茫o, inventamos as nossas pr贸prias hist贸rias. Muitas vezes me sentei com amigos e descrevemos livros que nunca foram escritos. Atulh谩mos bibliotecas de hist贸rias que nunca nos sentimos compelidos a passar para o papel. 芦Imaginar o enredo de um romance 茅 uma tarefa feliz禄, disse certa vez Borges. 芦Escrev锚-lo realmente 茅 um exagero.禄"
A Biblioteca como Identidade
"Podemos imaginar os livros que gostar铆amos de ler, mesmo se eles ainda n茫o tiverem sido escritos, e podemos imaginar bibliotecas cheias de livros que gostar铆amos de possuir, mesmo que eles estejam muito al茅m do nosso alcance, porque nos d谩 prazer conjurar uma biblioteca que reflecte os nossos interesses e os nossos pontos fracos 鈥� uma biblioteca que, na sua variedade e complexidade, reflecte inteiramente o leitor que somos."
A Biblioteca como Lar
"Ter como lar um 煤nico local ou ter como lar o mundo s茫o ambas no莽玫es que podem ser experienciadas como negativas. O conde Dr谩cula s贸 confia na sua biblioteca e lista desdenhosamente v谩rias nacionalidades que n茫o possui. O monstro de Frankenstein, como n茫o tem uma biblioteca que seja sua, procura o seu reflexo em todos os livros e, contudo, nunca consegue reconhecer a sua hist贸ria nessas p谩ginas 芦estrangeiras禄."
August 10, 2017
Alberto Manguel has created a life space for himself in which he can read, muse on reading and books and write about them to share his musings. Libraries are complex beings. Most of us have our own collections of books, but would we call them libraries? Manguel can, he has built a large room specifically to house his collection, and where he likes to read at night, in a carefully contrived pool of light, surrounded by shadows and books.
But if you're like us, we have books in unmatched shelves in almost every room of the house and it's a bit harder to think of that as a library. I tend to think of libraries as mostly public libraries of different sorts, run by organisations who can employ librarians to manage the collections and help borrowers find what they want, but of course they are much more than that.
Manguel explores ideas about reading, spaces, record keeping, knowledge, memory, identity and imagination; about the thinking that underlies choice of what is included or excluded, and how the collection is managed. It's fascinating reading if you're interested in these things.
From here on are the notes I made after reading it.
The first chapter is about his own library.
a
The Library of Alexandria 鈥� divided into thematic areas by categories devised by its librarians, each insistent on one aspect of the world鈥檚 variety 鈥� here was a place where memory was to be kept alive. But because the library was destroyed by fire, we neither know what it looked like or what was in it.
The library as Order:
How will we order our books. Alphabetically? By subject? By shelf size? By book size? Samuel Pepys in the seventeenth century build little high heels for his smaller volumes so the tops all followed a neat logical line. (p37) By colour, shape, language, country or continent, date they were added to the collection, how often we use them? Often a mix of all . One of my favourites ( not mentioned here) is the idea that you might order your book by authors who might like to sit next to each other at dinner to talk.
I know people who shelve books according to their height within a category, because they think it looks nicer. What about books by the same author? I ask. A weak smile is the response.
Libraries impose a certain vision of the world through its categories and its order (47).
The shape of a library shapes how you keep your books. No shelf is empty for long. Books move around, as space available changes. (66) And then there's the pile by the bed.
The Library as Power.
鈥楾he power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading.鈥� Eg Jewish and Muslim scholars transform their religious faith into an active power through reading, when 鈥榯he experience rescued from the page and transformed again into experience, in the words reflected both in the outside world and in the reader鈥檚 own being.鈥� (91)
Leibnitz 鈥� a library鈥檚 value is determined by its contents, and the use readers make of them.
Ashurbanipal claimed to be proud of his talents both as a scribe and a reader, but Manguel says that what really mattered to him 鈥榳as not the transformation of experience into learning, but the emblematic representation of the powerful qualities associated with books鈥欌€�.Under such rulers, libraries became not 鈥榯emples to learning鈥�, but 鈥榯emples to a benefactor, founder or provider鈥� (95-96)
The Library as Shadow
Every orderly choice sets up categories of exclusion 鈥� absences. Keepers of libraries and collections are not neutral, nor are readers. All choices mean exclusions 鈥� paralleling censorship. (107-108), sometimes reflecting acts of censorship.
The Library as shape.
Manguel鈥檚 library is built to reflect the way in which he reads. (133)
鈥楽quare spaces contain and dissect; circular spaces proclaim continuity. 鈥 library of straight angles suggests division into parts or subjects, consistent with the medieval notion of a compartmentalized and hierarchical universe; a circular library more generously allows the reader to imagine that every last page is also the first鈥�. 135-139. Gives examples of great library buildings, including that of Michelangelo at San Lorenzo in Florence for the Medici collection.
The Library as chance
Despite the best efforts of cataloguers and filers, books have a life of their own. 鈥楲eft to their own devices, they assemble in unexpected formations; they follow secret rules of similarity, unchronicled genealogies. Common interests and themes. Left in unattended corners or on piles by our bedside, in cartons or on shelves, waiting to be sorted and catalogued on some future day many times postponed, the stories held by books cluster around what Henry James called a 鈥済eneral intention鈥� that often escapes readers鈥欌€�
The Library as Workshop
Begins with the differences between the large room in which he keeps most of his books and the small room where he does most of his work. In his study, as well as books he always needs at arms reach, he 鈥榬equires certain talismans that have washed on to my desk over the years鈥�. His study hold his identity (180).
The Library as Mind
His library reflects the configuration of his mind. (193)
鈥榳hat makes a library a reflection of its owner is not merely the choice of the titles themselves, but the mesh of associations implied in the choice. Our experience builds on experience, our memory on other memories.鈥� And books build on other books.
The Warburg Library followed Warburg鈥檚 conception of the universe, arranged according to the intricacies of his thought 鈥� a labyrinth of books and images.
The Library as Island
Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe, the only book the Bible which dictated life.
Books for a desert island.
The Web 鈥� a space that belongs to all and precludes a sense of the past. All texts 鈥榓re equal and alike in form, they become nothing but phantom text and photographic image鈥�, (225).
All that counts is what is currently displayed 鈥� it is constantly in the present.
The library as survival
Each and every book holds the history of its survival. Books saved from destruction by the Nazis
Books and forgetting. A book, having been forgotten, can be rediscovered.
鈥業f reading is a craft that allows us to remember the common experience of humankind, it follows that totalitarian governments will try to suppress the memory held by the page. Under such circumstances, the reader鈥檚 struggle is against oblivion.鈥� 257
The Library as identity - our books reflect who we are; our interests and values and key segments of memory loops.
But if you're like us, we have books in unmatched shelves in almost every room of the house and it's a bit harder to think of that as a library. I tend to think of libraries as mostly public libraries of different sorts, run by organisations who can employ librarians to manage the collections and help borrowers find what they want, but of course they are much more than that.
Manguel explores ideas about reading, spaces, record keeping, knowledge, memory, identity and imagination; about the thinking that underlies choice of what is included or excluded, and how the collection is managed. It's fascinating reading if you're interested in these things.
From here on are the notes I made after reading it.
The first chapter is about his own library.
a
The Library of Alexandria 鈥� divided into thematic areas by categories devised by its librarians, each insistent on one aspect of the world鈥檚 variety 鈥� here was a place where memory was to be kept alive. But because the library was destroyed by fire, we neither know what it looked like or what was in it.
The library as Order:
How will we order our books. Alphabetically? By subject? By shelf size? By book size? Samuel Pepys in the seventeenth century build little high heels for his smaller volumes so the tops all followed a neat logical line. (p37) By colour, shape, language, country or continent, date they were added to the collection, how often we use them? Often a mix of all . One of my favourites ( not mentioned here) is the idea that you might order your book by authors who might like to sit next to each other at dinner to talk.
I know people who shelve books according to their height within a category, because they think it looks nicer. What about books by the same author? I ask. A weak smile is the response.
Libraries impose a certain vision of the world through its categories and its order (47).
The shape of a library shapes how you keep your books. No shelf is empty for long. Books move around, as space available changes. (66) And then there's the pile by the bed.
The Library as Power.
鈥楾he power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading.鈥� Eg Jewish and Muslim scholars transform their religious faith into an active power through reading, when 鈥榯he experience rescued from the page and transformed again into experience, in the words reflected both in the outside world and in the reader鈥檚 own being.鈥� (91)
Leibnitz 鈥� a library鈥檚 value is determined by its contents, and the use readers make of them.
Ashurbanipal claimed to be proud of his talents both as a scribe and a reader, but Manguel says that what really mattered to him 鈥榳as not the transformation of experience into learning, but the emblematic representation of the powerful qualities associated with books鈥欌€�.Under such rulers, libraries became not 鈥榯emples to learning鈥�, but 鈥榯emples to a benefactor, founder or provider鈥� (95-96)
The Library as Shadow
Every orderly choice sets up categories of exclusion 鈥� absences. Keepers of libraries and collections are not neutral, nor are readers. All choices mean exclusions 鈥� paralleling censorship. (107-108), sometimes reflecting acts of censorship.
The Library as shape.
Manguel鈥檚 library is built to reflect the way in which he reads. (133)
鈥楽quare spaces contain and dissect; circular spaces proclaim continuity. 鈥 library of straight angles suggests division into parts or subjects, consistent with the medieval notion of a compartmentalized and hierarchical universe; a circular library more generously allows the reader to imagine that every last page is also the first鈥�. 135-139. Gives examples of great library buildings, including that of Michelangelo at San Lorenzo in Florence for the Medici collection.
The Library as chance
Despite the best efforts of cataloguers and filers, books have a life of their own. 鈥楲eft to their own devices, they assemble in unexpected formations; they follow secret rules of similarity, unchronicled genealogies. Common interests and themes. Left in unattended corners or on piles by our bedside, in cartons or on shelves, waiting to be sorted and catalogued on some future day many times postponed, the stories held by books cluster around what Henry James called a 鈥済eneral intention鈥� that often escapes readers鈥欌€�
The Library as Workshop
Begins with the differences between the large room in which he keeps most of his books and the small room where he does most of his work. In his study, as well as books he always needs at arms reach, he 鈥榬equires certain talismans that have washed on to my desk over the years鈥�. His study hold his identity (180).
The Library as Mind
His library reflects the configuration of his mind. (193)
鈥榳hat makes a library a reflection of its owner is not merely the choice of the titles themselves, but the mesh of associations implied in the choice. Our experience builds on experience, our memory on other memories.鈥� And books build on other books.
The Warburg Library followed Warburg鈥檚 conception of the universe, arranged according to the intricacies of his thought 鈥� a labyrinth of books and images.
The Library as Island
Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe, the only book the Bible which dictated life.
Books for a desert island.
The Web 鈥� a space that belongs to all and precludes a sense of the past. All texts 鈥榓re equal and alike in form, they become nothing but phantom text and photographic image鈥�, (225).
All that counts is what is currently displayed 鈥� it is constantly in the present.
The library as survival
Each and every book holds the history of its survival. Books saved from destruction by the Nazis
Books and forgetting. A book, having been forgotten, can be rediscovered.
鈥業f reading is a craft that allows us to remember the common experience of humankind, it follows that totalitarian governments will try to suppress the memory held by the page. Under such circumstances, the reader鈥檚 struggle is against oblivion.鈥� 257
The Library as identity - our books reflect who we are; our interests and values and key segments of memory loops.
April 22, 2017
P. 72 - "To compensate for the deficient planning of the new main San Francisco Public Library, in which the architect had not allowed for a sufficiently large amount of shelving space, the administrators pulled hundreds of thousands (my italics) of books from the library's hold and sent them to a landfill. Since books were selected for destruction on the basis of the length of time they had sat unrequested, in order to save as many books as possible, heroic librarians crept into the stacks at night and stamped the threatened volumes with false withdrawal dates."
That passage reminds me of volunteering at our local library, and at one point being asked to cull mysteries that had sat unrequested for a couple of years. I requested permission (which was given) to save the lives of books by a few favorite authors. I was able to rescue those books, but if I hadn't been given permission to leave them on the shelves, I would have checked them out on my account. In the age of computers, there's no such thing as stamping a book with a false withdrawal date.
P. 74 - "As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader's hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words. (Columbia University's librarian Patricia Battin, a fierce advocate for the microfilming of books, disagreed with this notion. 'The value,' she wrote, 'in intellectual terms, of the proximity of the book to the user has never been satisfactorily established.' There speaks a dolt, someone utterly insensitive, in intellectual, or any other terms, to the experience of reading."
P. 88 - "What Flaubert's two clowns (Bouvard and P茅cuchet) discovered is what we have always known but seldom believed: that the accumulation of knowledge isn't knowledge."
P. 131 - "Seneca mocked ostentatious readers who relied on (book lined-walls) to lend them intellectual prestige; he argued for possessing only a small number of books, not 'endless bookshelves for the ignorant to decorate their dining rooms.'"
A man after my own heart.
P. 232 - "As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skill that has become subordinate to principals of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing."
Albert Manguel begins The Library at Night by writing about his library, which he built (or, more likely, had built) to his specifications. After a few pages of this, he moves on to discussing a history of libraries, both public and private. The rest of the book is of this ilk. There's nothing wrong with that. I just would have preferred to have read descriptions and discussions of the books in his own library. For me, the personal and particular tends to trump (no pun intended) the public and general.
The Library at Night is a good book of its kind, but it won't find its way onto the shelves of my own library.
That passage reminds me of volunteering at our local library, and at one point being asked to cull mysteries that had sat unrequested for a couple of years. I requested permission (which was given) to save the lives of books by a few favorite authors. I was able to rescue those books, but if I hadn't been given permission to leave them on the shelves, I would have checked them out on my account. In the age of computers, there's no such thing as stamping a book with a false withdrawal date.
P. 74 - "As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader's hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words. (Columbia University's librarian Patricia Battin, a fierce advocate for the microfilming of books, disagreed with this notion. 'The value,' she wrote, 'in intellectual terms, of the proximity of the book to the user has never been satisfactorily established.' There speaks a dolt, someone utterly insensitive, in intellectual, or any other terms, to the experience of reading."
P. 88 - "What Flaubert's two clowns (Bouvard and P茅cuchet) discovered is what we have always known but seldom believed: that the accumulation of knowledge isn't knowledge."
P. 131 - "Seneca mocked ostentatious readers who relied on (book lined-walls) to lend them intellectual prestige; he argued for possessing only a small number of books, not 'endless bookshelves for the ignorant to decorate their dining rooms.'"
A man after my own heart.
P. 232 - "As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skill that has become subordinate to principals of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing."
Albert Manguel begins The Library at Night by writing about his library, which he built (or, more likely, had built) to his specifications. After a few pages of this, he moves on to discussing a history of libraries, both public and private. The rest of the book is of this ilk. There's nothing wrong with that. I just would have preferred to have read descriptions and discussions of the books in his own library. For me, the personal and particular tends to trump (no pun intended) the public and general.
The Library at Night is a good book of its kind, but it won't find its way onto the shelves of my own library.
January 4, 2019
O in铆cio foi lento, ao fim de 4-5 p谩ginas, dava comigo a bocejar, e uma ou outra vez cheguei mesmo a adormecer鈥� Mas a certa altura, para a铆 a partir da p谩gina 30 ou 40, alguma coisa aconteceu (ainda n茫o percebi bem o qu锚, mas o mais prov谩vel 茅 ter sido a minha disposi莽茫o que mudou), e o livro foi-se tornando cada vez mais interessante. As 煤ltimas p谩ginas, ent茫o, praticamente voaram. A Biblioteca 脿 Noite, 茅 uma homenagem aos livros e 脿s bibliotecas, come莽ando pela do pr贸prio autor. Percorre a hist贸ria das bibliotecas desde a antiguidade at茅 ao presente. 脡 um livro bonito, com muitas hist贸rias interessantes, para ler com um caderno ou o computador 脿 m茫o, para ir tomando notas acerca de livros e assuntos para explorar mais tarde.
Esta foi uma das (v谩rias) hist贸rias que li e gostei:
Em Ouadane conta-se a hist贸ria de um pedinte que, no in铆cio do s茅culo XV, apareceu nas portas da cidade, esfaimado e esfarrapado. Foi levado para a mesquita, alimentado e vestido, mas ningu茅m consegiu faz锚-lo revelar como se chamava nem onde nascera. O homem s贸 parecia interessar-se por passar horas e horas entre os livros de Ouadane, numa leitura inteiramente silenciosa. Finalmente, ap贸s v谩rios meses deste comportamento misterioso, o im茫 perdeu a paci锚ncia e disse ao pedinte. 鈥淓st谩 escrito que quem mant茅m o saber para si mesmo n茫o ser谩 recebido no Reino dos C茅us. Cada leitor n茫o 茅 sen茫o um cap铆tulo na vida de um livro e, a menos que passe o seu conhecimento a outros, 茅 como se condenasse o livro a ser soterrado vivo. Desejas tal destino par os livros que t茫o bem te serviram?鈥�
Se quiserem saber o resto da hist贸ria, v茫o ter de ler o livro ;)
Copiei aqui este peda莽o porque a pergunta do im茫, 茅 uma que, de vez em quando, fa莽o a mim mesma. Bem sei que j谩 n茫o estamos na 茅poca em que os livros eram objetos raros, copiados 脿 m茫o e lidos por uma 铆nfima minoria. Nessa altura, podemos aceitar que quem tinha acesso a um tal tesouro tivesse realmente a obriga莽茫o moral de lhe dar uso e de o partilhar. Agora 茅 tudo diferente. Ainda assim, 脿s vezes dou comigo a pensar no que 茅 que fica, realmente, de todos os livros que leio...
Esta foi uma das (v谩rias) hist贸rias que li e gostei:
Em Ouadane conta-se a hist贸ria de um pedinte que, no in铆cio do s茅culo XV, apareceu nas portas da cidade, esfaimado e esfarrapado. Foi levado para a mesquita, alimentado e vestido, mas ningu茅m consegiu faz锚-lo revelar como se chamava nem onde nascera. O homem s贸 parecia interessar-se por passar horas e horas entre os livros de Ouadane, numa leitura inteiramente silenciosa. Finalmente, ap贸s v谩rios meses deste comportamento misterioso, o im茫 perdeu a paci锚ncia e disse ao pedinte. 鈥淓st谩 escrito que quem mant茅m o saber para si mesmo n茫o ser谩 recebido no Reino dos C茅us. Cada leitor n茫o 茅 sen茫o um cap铆tulo na vida de um livro e, a menos que passe o seu conhecimento a outros, 茅 como se condenasse o livro a ser soterrado vivo. Desejas tal destino par os livros que t茫o bem te serviram?鈥�
Se quiserem saber o resto da hist贸ria, v茫o ter de ler o livro ;)
Copiei aqui este peda莽o porque a pergunta do im茫, 茅 uma que, de vez em quando, fa莽o a mim mesma. Bem sei que j谩 n茫o estamos na 茅poca em que os livros eram objetos raros, copiados 脿 m茫o e lidos por uma 铆nfima minoria. Nessa altura, podemos aceitar que quem tinha acesso a um tal tesouro tivesse realmente a obriga莽茫o moral de lhe dar uso e de o partilhar. Agora 茅 tudo diferente. Ainda assim, 脿s vezes dou comigo a pensar no que 茅 que fica, realmente, de todos os livros que leio...
August 30, 2022
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
I did not dream of being a librarian, but I have always felt safe there, even that time when I walked into the bottom of a concrete staircase and was nearly knocked unconscious. There's unfortunately something mercenary about me. I love used bookstores more. I also leer at the books of other people when I am in their homes.
Manguel spends excessive time with the physical aspects and functions of libraries. There are dabs of criticism, almost poetic but I wanted more. I want someone to capture the way I feel when approaching Powell's or The Strand.
I did not dream of being a librarian, but I have always felt safe there, even that time when I walked into the bottom of a concrete staircase and was nearly knocked unconscious. There's unfortunately something mercenary about me. I love used bookstores more. I also leer at the books of other people when I am in their homes.
Manguel spends excessive time with the physical aspects and functions of libraries. There are dabs of criticism, almost poetic but I wanted more. I want someone to capture the way I feel when approaching Powell's or The Strand.
November 26, 2019
"賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 丨賷賳 鬲賵賯丿 賲氐丕亘賷丨 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賷禺鬲賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷貙 賵賱丕 賷亘賯賶 賮賷 丕賱賵噩賵丿 爻賵賶 賮囟丕亍 丕賱賰鬲亘. 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 賷賵丨賷 賲賳馗乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賱賱卮禺氐 丕賱賵丕賯賮 賮賷 丕賱丨丿賷賯丞 禺丕乇噩賸丕貙 賲丕 賷卮亘賴 丕賱賲乇賰亘 丕賱賮爻賷丨."
賴賰匕丕 鬲亘丿賵 賲賰鬲亘丞 兀賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 毓丕卮賯 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賱賱賵丕賯賮 賮賷 丕賱丨丿賷賯丞 鬲丨鬲 卮噩乇鬲賷 丕賱氐賵賮賵乇丕貙 鬲丨鬲 爻賲丕亍 賲乇氐毓丞 亘丕賱賳噩賵賲貙 賰鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘乇賯 賮賷 毓賯賱 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱貙 賰鬲亘賴 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘賴貙 丕賱鬲賷 賴賷 丕賳毓賰丕爻 賱賳噩賵賲 毓賯賱賴貙 賰丕賱賲賳噩賾賲 賳丕馗乇賸丕 廿賱賶 丕賱賳噩賵賲 賴賰匕丕 賴賵... 賲賳馗乇 禺賷丕賱賷 爻丨乇賷貙 賰丕賱賲乇賰亘 丕賱賮爻賷丨 丕賱賲囟丕亍 賵丕賱爻丕亘丨 賮賷 賮囟丕亍 丕賱賰賵賳貙 賵賱賳 賷氐丿賯 兀丨丿 賰賷賮 兀亘氐乇鬲 锟斤拷賱賳賵乇 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱禺丕賲爻 毓卮乇貙 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨噩乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀氐亘丨鬲 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴.
賲賮鬲賵賳 亘丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賱丕 鬲睾賲乇賴 賲鬲毓丞 丕賱賲睾丕賲乇丞 廿賱丕 丨賷賳 賷睾乇賯 賮賷 亘丨乇 賰鬲亘賴貙 賵賷賮賯丿 賳賮爻賴 賵爻胤 兀賰丿丕爻賴丕 丕賱賲賰鬲馗丞. 賮賷 氐睾乇賴 丨賷賳 賰丕賳 兀氐丿賯丕卅賴 賷丨賱賲賵賳 亘賲丌孬乇 亘胤賵賱賷丞 賮賷 丨賯賵賱 丕賱賴賳丿爻丞 賵丕賱賯丕賳賵賳貙 賵丕賱賲丕賱 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻丞貙 賰丕賳 丨賱賲賴 兀賳 賷氐亘丨 兀賲賷賳 賲賰鬲亘丞!.
賲賮鬲賵賳 亘亘乇噩 亘丕亘賱 賮賷 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賵亘賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 賮賷 丕賱夭賲丕賳. 兀丨丕胤 賳賮爻賴 亘賰鬲亘賴 賮賷 毓賲乇 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞貙 賵噩賲毓 賮賷 睾乇賮鬲賴 廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 賲氐睾乇丞.
胤賲賵丨賴貙 賵乇睾亘鬲賴 丕賱賲爻鬲丨賷賱丞 賮賷 丕丨鬲賵丕亍 賰賱 賱睾丕鬲 亘丕亘賱貙 賵鬲賵賯賴 賱鬲賲賱賰 賰賱 賰鬲亘 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞貙 賮賷 馗賱賴賲丕 丕賳毓賰爻鬲 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 賰丕賱賳噩賲丞 毓賱賶 賲乇丌丞 丕賱賰賵賳.
賱丕 賷賮囟賱 丕賱噩賱賵爻 賵爻胤 賰鬲亘賴 賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 廿賱丕 亘丕賱賱賷賱貙 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 丨賷孬 丕賱氐賲鬲 丕賱賲胤賱賯貙 賵丕賱賴丿賵亍貙听丨賷賳 鬲卮胤乇 賲孬賱孬丕鬲 丕賱囟賵亍 丕賱鬲賷 賷卮賰賱賴丕 賲氐亘丕丨 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 乇賮賵賮 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 廿賱賶 賳氐賮賷賳.
兀賵 賮賷 丕賱禺丕乇噩 賮賷 馗賱賲丞 丕賱賱賷賱 鬲丨鬲 卮噩乇鬲賷 丕賱氐賵賮賵乇丕貙 賵鬲丨鬲 丕賱賳噩賵賲貙 賲毓 兀氐丿賯丕亍貙 賷鬲丨丿孬賵賳 丨賵賱 賰鬲亘 賱賲 鬲購賰鬲亘 兀亘丿賸丕貙 賵丨賰丕賷丕鬲 賱賳 鬲購丿賵賳 毓賱賶 丕賱賵乇賯貙 賯丕賱 :
"鬲丨鬲 卮噩乇鬲賷賾貙 兀囟賮賳丕 兀賳丕 賵兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 廿賱賶 賮賴乇爻鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 乇賮賵賮賸丕 賰丕賲賱丞 賲賱兀賶 亘賰鬲亘 乇丕卅毓丞貙 丕禺鬲賮鬲 丿賵賳 兀孬乇 賲丕 兀賳 丨賱 丕賱氐亘丕丨. "
丕賱丌賳 賷毓賷卮 賵爻胤 乇賮賵賮 賰鬲亘 賮賷 賳賲賵 賲爻鬲賲乇貙 丨鬲賶 亘丿鬲 丨丿賵丿賴丕 囟亘丕亘賷丞貙 賵賲鬲賲丕賴賷丞 賲毓 亘賷鬲賴 賳賮爻賴貙 賵賰賱 賰鬲丕亘 賲賳 賰鬲亘賴 賷丨賲賱 賴賵賷鬲賴 丕賱禺丕氐丞貙 賯氐丞 賳噩丕鬲賴貙 賵賰兀賳賴 兀賮賱鬲 賲賳 丕賱賲禺丕胤乇 兀賵 賲賳 賷丿 賯丕乇卅 亘毓賷丿 賱賷乇賵賷 賱賴 賯氐鬲賴.
"賰賱 賯丕乇卅 賴賵 廿賲丕 胤賵賾丕賮 賷爻鬲乇賷丨 賵廿賲丕 賲爻丕賮乇 賷毓賵丿."
賴賳丕 亘賷賳 胤賷丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賳賯乇兀 毓賳 乇丨賱丞 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 丕賱賲爻丕賮乇 賮賷 丿賴丕賱賷夭 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 亘賷賳 兀乇賵賯丞 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賵亘賷賳 乇賮賵賮 丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賵丨賰丕賷丕鬲 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賰鬲賾丕亘 賵丕賱賯乇賾丕亍貙 賵毓賳 亘賵乇禺賷爻...
乇丨賱丞 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 丕賱胤賵賾丕賮 丕賱匕賷 鬲賳鬲賴賷 亘賴 丕賱乇丨賱丞貙 丕賱鬲賷 賱賳 鬲賳鬲賴賷貙 賮賷 賲賱丕匕賴 丕賱賲乇賷丨 亘賷賳 賰鬲亘賴貙 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 丨賷孬 丕賱賴丿賵亍 賮賷 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱賲囟丕亍 鬲丨鬲 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱匕賷 賷禺賷賲 禺丕乇噩賸丕 丨賷孬 卮噩乇鬲賷 丕賱氐賵賮賵乇丕 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賳噩賵賲.
26.11.2019
賴賰匕丕 鬲亘丿賵 賲賰鬲亘丞 兀賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 毓丕卮賯 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賱賱賵丕賯賮 賮賷 丕賱丨丿賷賯丞 鬲丨鬲 卮噩乇鬲賷 丕賱氐賵賮賵乇丕貙 鬲丨鬲 爻賲丕亍 賲乇氐毓丞 亘丕賱賳噩賵賲貙 賰鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘乇賯 賮賷 毓賯賱 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱貙 賰鬲亘賴 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘賴貙 丕賱鬲賷 賴賷 丕賳毓賰丕爻 賱賳噩賵賲 毓賯賱賴貙 賰丕賱賲賳噩賾賲 賳丕馗乇賸丕 廿賱賶 丕賱賳噩賵賲 賴賰匕丕 賴賵... 賲賳馗乇 禺賷丕賱賷 爻丨乇賷貙 賰丕賱賲乇賰亘 丕賱賮爻賷丨 丕賱賲囟丕亍 賵丕賱爻丕亘丨 賮賷 賮囟丕亍 丕賱賰賵賳貙 賵賱賳 賷氐丿賯 兀丨丿 賰賷賮 兀亘氐乇鬲 锟斤拷賱賳賵乇 賱兀賵賱 賲乇丞 賮賷 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱禺丕賲爻 毓卮乇貙 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨噩乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀氐亘丨鬲 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴.
賲賮鬲賵賳 亘丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賱丕 鬲睾賲乇賴 賲鬲毓丞 丕賱賲睾丕賲乇丞 廿賱丕 丨賷賳 賷睾乇賯 賮賷 亘丨乇 賰鬲亘賴貙 賵賷賮賯丿 賳賮爻賴 賵爻胤 兀賰丿丕爻賴丕 丕賱賲賰鬲馗丞. 賮賷 氐睾乇賴 丨賷賳 賰丕賳 兀氐丿賯丕卅賴 賷丨賱賲賵賳 亘賲丌孬乇 亘胤賵賱賷丞 賮賷 丨賯賵賱 丕賱賴賳丿爻丞 賵丕賱賯丕賳賵賳貙 賵丕賱賲丕賱 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻丞貙 賰丕賳 丨賱賲賴 兀賳 賷氐亘丨 兀賲賷賳 賲賰鬲亘丞!.
賲賮鬲賵賳 亘亘乇噩 亘丕亘賱 賮賷 丕賱賲賰丕賳 賵亘賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 賮賷 丕賱夭賲丕賳. 兀丨丕胤 賳賮爻賴 亘賰鬲亘賴 賮賷 毓賲乇 丕賱爻丕亘毓丞貙 賵噩賲毓 賮賷 睾乇賮鬲賴 廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 賲氐睾乇丞.
胤賲賵丨賴貙 賵乇睾亘鬲賴 丕賱賲爻鬲丨賷賱丞 賮賷 丕丨鬲賵丕亍 賰賱 賱睾丕鬲 亘丕亘賱貙 賵鬲賵賯賴 賱鬲賲賱賰 賰賱 賰鬲亘 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞貙 賮賷 馗賱賴賲丕 丕賳毓賰爻鬲 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 賰丕賱賳噩賲丞 毓賱賶 賲乇丌丞 丕賱賰賵賳.
賱丕 賷賮囟賱 丕賱噩賱賵爻 賵爻胤 賰鬲亘賴 賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 廿賱丕 亘丕賱賱賷賱貙 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 丨賷孬 丕賱氐賲鬲 丕賱賲胤賱賯貙 賵丕賱賴丿賵亍貙听丨賷賳 鬲卮胤乇 賲孬賱孬丕鬲 丕賱囟賵亍 丕賱鬲賷 賷卮賰賱賴丕 賲氐亘丕丨 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 乇賮賵賮 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 廿賱賶 賳氐賮賷賳.
兀賵 賮賷 丕賱禺丕乇噩 賮賷 馗賱賲丞 丕賱賱賷賱 鬲丨鬲 卮噩乇鬲賷 丕賱氐賵賮賵乇丕貙 賵鬲丨鬲 丕賱賳噩賵賲貙 賲毓 兀氐丿賯丕亍貙 賷鬲丨丿孬賵賳 丨賵賱 賰鬲亘 賱賲 鬲購賰鬲亘 兀亘丿賸丕貙 賵丨賰丕賷丕鬲 賱賳 鬲購丿賵賳 毓賱賶 丕賱賵乇賯貙 賯丕賱 :
"鬲丨鬲 卮噩乇鬲賷賾貙 兀囟賮賳丕 兀賳丕 賵兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 廿賱賶 賮賴乇爻鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 乇賮賵賮賸丕 賰丕賲賱丞 賲賱兀賶 亘賰鬲亘 乇丕卅毓丞貙 丕禺鬲賮鬲 丿賵賳 兀孬乇 賲丕 兀賳 丨賱 丕賱氐亘丕丨. "
丕賱丌賳 賷毓賷卮 賵爻胤 乇賮賵賮 賰鬲亘 賮賷 賳賲賵 賲爻鬲賲乇貙 丨鬲賶 亘丿鬲 丨丿賵丿賴丕 囟亘丕亘賷丞貙 賵賲鬲賲丕賴賷丞 賲毓 亘賷鬲賴 賳賮爻賴貙 賵賰賱 賰鬲丕亘 賲賳 賰鬲亘賴 賷丨賲賱 賴賵賷鬲賴 丕賱禺丕氐丞貙 賯氐丞 賳噩丕鬲賴貙 賵賰兀賳賴 兀賮賱鬲 賲賳 丕賱賲禺丕胤乇 兀賵 賲賳 賷丿 賯丕乇卅 亘毓賷丿 賱賷乇賵賷 賱賴 賯氐鬲賴.
"賰賱 賯丕乇卅 賴賵 廿賲丕 胤賵賾丕賮 賷爻鬲乇賷丨 賵廿賲丕 賲爻丕賮乇 賷毓賵丿."
賴賳丕 亘賷賳 胤賷丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賳賯乇兀 毓賳 乇丨賱丞 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 丕賱賲爻丕賮乇 賮賷 丿賴丕賱賷夭 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 亘賷賳 兀乇賵賯丞 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 賵亘賷賳 乇賮賵賮 丕賱賰鬲亘貙 賵丨賰丕賷丕鬲 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賰鬲賾丕亘 賵丕賱賯乇賾丕亍貙 賵毓賳 亘賵乇禺賷爻...
乇丨賱丞 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 丕賱胤賵賾丕賮 丕賱匕賷 鬲賳鬲賴賷 亘賴 丕賱乇丨賱丞貙 丕賱鬲賷 賱賳 鬲賳鬲賴賷貙 賮賷 賲賱丕匕賴 丕賱賲乇賷丨 亘賷賳 賰鬲亘賴貙 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 丨賷孬 丕賱賴丿賵亍 賮賷 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱賲囟丕亍 鬲丨鬲 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱匕賷 賷禺賷賲 禺丕乇噩賸丕 丨賷孬 卮噩乇鬲賷 丕賱氐賵賮賵乇丕 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賳噩賵賲.
26.11.2019
September 2, 2015
Great book although not a lot of new things if you've read any history of libraries. I was reminded of a book that brought me to tears - - although Manguel also looks at positive events in book and library history. He also talks about building his own library.
The book is organized by topic - library at night, library as space, library as power - I found these topics to be more accessible than a typical history book that would start at the beginning. He intersperses historical accounts with philosophy and other writings, which I liked very much.
Right now I'm working on developing a reading workshop type class and will have required reading experiences for students to journal about. Some of them will come from this book so just for that I award him an additional star. I think if library school students are still taking History of the Book classes, they could use this as a textbook and throw away the actual textbook.
The book is organized by topic - library at night, library as space, library as power - I found these topics to be more accessible than a typical history book that would start at the beginning. He intersperses historical accounts with philosophy and other writings, which I liked very much.
Right now I'm working on developing a reading workshop type class and will have required reading experiences for students to journal about. Some of them will come from this book so just for that I award him an additional star. I think if library school students are still taking History of the Book classes, they could use this as a textbook and throw away the actual textbook.
April 19, 2020
B枚yle k谋rk ambar niteli臒inde kitaplar谋 okumak ayr谋 bir keyif, 枚zellikle yazan Manguel gibi birisi olursa. Farkl谋 boyutlar谋yla k眉t眉phane kavram谋, k眉t眉phanelerin, kitaplar谋n tarihi 眉zerinde durmu艧 眉stat. 陌lgin莽 anekdotlarla, yararl谋 bilgilerle dolu. 陌leride yapabilece臒iniz seyahatler i莽in notlar da alabilirsiniz okurken. Baz谋 k谋s谋mlar谋 bende atlama iste臒i uyand谋rsa da genel olarak kitaplar谋 seven herkesin keyif alaca臒谋n谋 d眉艧眉nd眉臒眉m ho艧 bir eser.
December 1, 2021
Nov 30, 1130am ~~ Review asap. I have to go play with my books a little bit first.
Nov 30, 930pm ~~ Reader beware: THIS BOOK IS DANGEROUS.
It may add dozens of titles to your reading lists. It may make you crazy with curiosity, forcing you to go discover more about the many people the author brings up.
But mostly it is dangerous because even while reading, you will want to go play with your own library. You may decide to shuffle titles around, plan new shelving systems, search out old friends, or merely sit and look at all of your treasures.
You also might become just a little jealous of the author and his library with 30,000 titles. I think I am more jealous of the space he has for his books than I am of his books themselves, come to think of it. Who wouldn't be?!
Manguel sorts his book into chapters which explore the many roles a library plays in life. From Myth to Workshop to Survival to Identity, each chapter entertains and educates, and reminds the reader that this author is also a reader, someone who truly understands the magic of books and the many reasons we all love them.
There are a great many pages of notes at the end, and a 'non-canonical' list of AM's favorite books. Once I looked up the exact meaning of non-canonical, I was curious about whether or not I might have read some of his favorites. Out of a list of 217 I was surprised to find 26 that I have read at some point during my 63 years. There were also plenty I had never heard of, but many others that I have at least seen mentioned.
Do I sense a new source for a personal challenge list? Oh, heck yeah!! Someday, I'm sure I will at least look to see how many of Manguel's favorites are available to me. After all, when an author creates an itch, you just have to scratch at least a little bit, right?
Wonderful book, and I am very glad to add it to my not-quite-30,000 volume library.
Nov 30, 930pm ~~ Reader beware: THIS BOOK IS DANGEROUS.
It may add dozens of titles to your reading lists. It may make you crazy with curiosity, forcing you to go discover more about the many people the author brings up.
But mostly it is dangerous because even while reading, you will want to go play with your own library. You may decide to shuffle titles around, plan new shelving systems, search out old friends, or merely sit and look at all of your treasures.
You also might become just a little jealous of the author and his library with 30,000 titles. I think I am more jealous of the space he has for his books than I am of his books themselves, come to think of it. Who wouldn't be?!
Manguel sorts his book into chapters which explore the many roles a library plays in life. From Myth to Workshop to Survival to Identity, each chapter entertains and educates, and reminds the reader that this author is also a reader, someone who truly understands the magic of books and the many reasons we all love them.
There are a great many pages of notes at the end, and a 'non-canonical' list of AM's favorite books. Once I looked up the exact meaning of non-canonical, I was curious about whether or not I might have read some of his favorites. Out of a list of 217 I was surprised to find 26 that I have read at some point during my 63 years. There were also plenty I had never heard of, but many others that I have at least seen mentioned.
Do I sense a new source for a personal challenge list? Oh, heck yeah!! Someday, I'm sure I will at least look to see how many of Manguel's favorites are available to me. After all, when an author creates an itch, you just have to scratch at least a little bit, right?
Wonderful book, and I am very glad to add it to my not-quite-30,000 volume library.
March 6, 2018
亘毓囟 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲鬲亘丕丿賱 兀丿賵丕乇賴丕 賲毓賳丕貙 鬲賯乇丐賳丕 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 兀賳 賳賯乇兀賴丕 賳丨賳 :)
賴匕賴 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 丕賱鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴丕貙 鬲賯賮 丨丕卅乇丕 賵毓賯賱賰 賷賯賱亘 兀賮賰丕乇賴貙 賱丕 鬲丿乇賷 亘賲丕匕丕 鬲毓亘乇 毓賲丕 賯乇兀鬲賴 賵毓卮鬲賴 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
賱賳 兀賯賵賱 卮賷卅丕 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 爻賵賶 : 廿賳 賰賳鬲 賲賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賷丨亘賵賳 丕賱孬乇孬乇丞 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 - 賵毓丕丿丞 賱賳 鬲噩丿 卮禺氐丕 賷鬲丨賲賱 兀賳 賷爻鬲賲毓 廿賱賶 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賰賲 丕賱賴丕卅賱 賲賳 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲貨 賱兀賳賰 鬲賰賵賳 賮賷 賯賲丞 丕賱爻毓丕丿丞 賵毓賷賵賳賰 鬲賱賲毓 賰賲賳 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲丨亘賵亘鬲賴 - .. 爻鬲噩丿 囟丕賱鬲賰 賴賳丕 D:
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" 兀賳丕 賱丕 兀亘丨孬 毓賳 賵丨賷 賲賳 兀賷 賳賵毓貙 賵賱丕 兀亘丨孬 毓賳 賲毓乇賮丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 亘胤乇賷賯丞 爻乇賷丞貙 兀賲賱賰賴丕 賲爻亘賯丕貙 賵賱丕 毓賳 鬲噩乇亘丞貙 亘賲丕 兀賳賴 賷賲賰賳賳賷 賵丨丿賷 賮賯胤 兀賳 兀毓賷 賲丕 賴賵 丿丕禺賱賷 賲爻亘賯丕. 毓賳 賲丕匕丕 廿匕丕貙 兀賳丕 兀亘丨孬 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 賯氐丞 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷責
丕賱爻賱賵丕賳 乇亘賲丕. 乇亘賲丕 丕賱爻賱賵丕賳..."
賴匕賴 丕賱賰鬲亘 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 丕賱鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴丕貙 鬲賯賮 丨丕卅乇丕 賵毓賯賱賰 賷賯賱亘 兀賮賰丕乇賴貙 賱丕 鬲丿乇賷 亘賲丕匕丕 鬲毓亘乇 毓賲丕 賯乇兀鬲賴 賵毓卮鬲賴 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
賱賳 兀賯賵賱 卮賷卅丕 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 爻賵賶 : 廿賳 賰賳鬲 賲賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賷丨亘賵賳 丕賱孬乇孬乇丞 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 - 賵毓丕丿丞 賱賳 鬲噩丿 卮禺氐丕 賷鬲丨賲賱 兀賳 賷爻鬲賲毓 廿賱賶 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賰賲 丕賱賴丕卅賱 賲賳 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲貨 賱兀賳賰 鬲賰賵賳 賮賷 賯賲丞 丕賱爻毓丕丿丞 賵毓賷賵賳賰 鬲賱賲毓 賰賲賳 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲丨亘賵亘鬲賴 - .. 爻鬲噩丿 囟丕賱鬲賰 賴賳丕 D:
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" 兀賳丕 賱丕 兀亘丨孬 毓賳 賵丨賷 賲賳 兀賷 賳賵毓貙 賵賱丕 兀亘丨孬 毓賳 賲毓乇賮丞 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 亘胤乇賷賯丞 爻乇賷丞貙 兀賲賱賰賴丕 賲爻亘賯丕貙 賵賱丕 毓賳 鬲噩乇亘丞貙 亘賲丕 兀賳賴 賷賲賰賳賳賷 賵丨丿賷 賮賯胤 兀賳 兀毓賷 賲丕 賴賵 丿丕禺賱賷 賲爻亘賯丕. 毓賳 賲丕匕丕 廿匕丕貙 兀賳丕 兀亘丨孬 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 賯氐丞 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷責
丕賱爻賱賵丕賳 乇亘賲丕. 乇亘賲丕 丕賱爻賱賵丕賳..."
February 7, 2017
丕賱賱賯丕亍 丕賱孬丕賱孬 賲毓 丕賱亘乇鬲賵 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 .. 賴匕丕 丕賱賲孬賯賮 丕賱毓丕卮賯 賱賱賰鬲亘 賲孬賱賳丕 ..
賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 .. 鬲亘賴乇賳賷 丿丕卅賲丕 孬賯丕賮鬲賴 丕賱毓丕賱賷丞 賵賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇丞 賵乇丨賱丕鬲賴 丕賱賲鬲賳賵毓丞 .. 賵丕丨爻丿賴 賰孬賷乇丕 毓賱賷 賲丕 毓丕氐乇賴 賵卮丕賴丿賴 賵賲丕 氐丕丿賮賴 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴 賲賳 賲卮丕賴賷乇 鬲賯丕亘賱 賲毓賴賲 賵丿禺賱 賲賳丕夭賱賴賲 賵賯乇兀 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲賴賲 丕賱禺丕氐丞 貙 賵卮丕賴丿賴賲 亘毓賷賳賷賴 賷鬲噩賵賱賵賳 賵賷賰鬲亘賵賳 賵賷賯乇丕賵賳 .. 賵禺丕氐丞 賲丕 卮丕賴丿賴 賲毓 亘賵乇禺賷爻 ..
賮賲丕 廿丨爻丕爻賴 賵賴賵 賷噩賱爻 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘丞 亘賵乇禺賷爻 丕賱禺丕氐丞 責
賵賲丕 爻賷賰賵賳 廿丨爻丕爻賰 廿賳鬲 賱賵 廿賳賰 賲賰丕賳賴 .. 鬲賯賱亘 亘賷丿賷賰 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 賵鬲噩賱爻 亘噩丕賳亘賴 賵噩賴丕 賱賵噩賴 責
丨賯丕貙 賲丕匕丕 爻鬲乇賷丿 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 匕賱賰 責責
兀賰孬乇 賲丕 兀毓噩亘賳賷 丕賱孬賯丕賮丞 丕賱毓丕賱賷丞 賮賷 丕賱毓乇囟 .. 賵賰兀賳賰 鬲鬲噩賵賱 賲毓賴 丨賯丕 亘賷賳 丕乇賮賮 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賲賳爻賷丞 賮賷 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 丕賱囟賷賯丞 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲胤乇 賵亘賷賳 丕賱夭丨丕賲 ..
丕賴賳丕賰 兀噩賲賱 賲賳 兀賳 鬲爻賷乇 賵丨丿賰 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲胤乇 丕賱禺賮賷賮 賮賷 卮賵丕乇毓 賯丿賷賲丞 毓賱賷 丕賱賳賲胤 丕賱廿賷胤丕賱賷 賵鬲丿禺賱 丕賱賷 賲賰鬲亘丞 禺卮亘賷丞 賯丿賷賲丞 賳爻賷賴丕 丕賱夭賲賳 賮賷 賲賰丕賳賴丕 賵亘賯賷鬲 賴賳丕賰 賮賷 夭賯丕賯 囟賷賯 鬲賳鬲馗乇 毓卮丕賯賴丕 責責
丕賴賳丕賰 兀噩賲賱 賲賳 賰鬲丕亘 賯丿賷賲 賲毓 賮賳噩丕賳 賯賴賵丞 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲胤乇 責責
賱丕 兀馗賳 ..
賴匕賴 賴賷 爻毓丕丿鬲賷 ..
賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 噩毓賱賳賷 兀卮毓乇 亘賴匕丕 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 ..
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October 2, 2014
賲賳 丨賷賳 賱丌禺乇 兀丨亘 兀賳 兀亘鬲毓丿 毓賳 毓丕賱賲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷 賵兀亘丨孬 毓賳 丕賱爻丨乇 賮賷 賰鬲亘 兀禺乇賶 ... 賵兀乇賰夭 毓賱賶 爻丨乇 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 賵丕賱廿賰鬲卮丕賮 ... 賵賷丕賱賴 賲賳 爻丨乇 賴匕丕 丕賱匕賷 賷丨鬲賵賷賴 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 ! 毓丕賱賲 賷丨賷丕 亘丿丕禺賱 賰賱 賯丕乇賷亍 .... 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 毓賳 丕賱卮睾賮 亘賴賲丕 賲賳匕 賯丿賷賲 丕賱兀夭賱
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷鬲鬲亘毓 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵亘丕賱囟乇賵乇丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 ... 賷鬲鬲亘毓 丕賱賰賵丕乇孬 丕賱鬲賷 丨賱鬲 亘亘毓囟 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵賰匕賱賰 丕賱賰鬲亘
賱賳 兀賯賮 毓賳丿 鬲賯爻賷賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵賱賳 丕鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賰賱 丕賱賮氐賵賱 ... 賮賯胤 爻兀鬲锟斤拷丿孬 毓賳 賲卮丕毓乇賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 ... 兀賳丕 夭賵噩丞 賵兀賲 賵賯氐鬲賷 賲毓 丕賱毓賵丿丞 賱卮睾賮賷 丕賱賯丿賷賲 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賷毓賱賲丕 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賰賱 兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 賴賳丕 賮賯丿 賰鬲亘鬲賴丕 賮賷 賯爻賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丕鬲 賵鬲馗賴乇 賲賳 丨賷賳 賱丌禺乇 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 ... 兀賴鬲賲 賰孬賷乇丕 亘亘賳丕亍 賲賰鬲亘丞 禺丕氐丞 賮賷 賲賳夭賱賷 賵兀鬲賲賳賶 兀賳 賷噩丿賴丕 兀胤賮丕賱賷 賲孬賷乇丞 賱賴賲 賵丕賳 賷噩丿賵丕 賮賷 賰鬲亘賴丕 賲鬲毓鬲賴賲 賰賲丕 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 兀賲賴賲 ... 賵賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱卮兀賳 賵丿丿鬲 兀賳 賷賵囟丨 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賲賵賯賮 丕亘賳丕卅賴 賲賳 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘禺丕氐丞 賵兀賳賴 賯丿 噩丕亍 毓賱賶 匕賰乇賴賲 毓賳丿賲丕 賵囟丨 乇丿 賮毓賱賴賲 賵賯賵賱賴賲 兀賳賴賲 賷丨鬲丕噩賵賳 賰丕乇鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 賱賱鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 丿禺賵賱 亘賷鬲賴賲 賵賯丿 丕賳鬲卮乇鬲 賮賷賴丕 丕賱賰鬲亘
兀毓噩亘鬲賳賷 賰匕賱賰 賮賰乇丞 毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賵賴賲賷丞 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 丕賱賵賴賲賷丞 賵丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賲賳 亘賳丕鬲 兀賮賰丕乇 兀丨丿 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賱爻禺乇賷丞 賲賳 賰鬲亘 亘毓賷賳賴丕 賮賷 毓氐乇賴貙 賵賱賷 賲賳 丕賱兀氐丿賯丕亍 毓賱賶 丕賱賮賷爻亘賵賰 賲賳 賷賯賵賲賵賳 亘卮賷亍 卮亘賷賴 亘匕賱賰 ... 賵鬲匕賰乇鬲 丨賷賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 "賲禺胤賵胤丞 丕亘賳 丕爻丨丕賯" 賵賴賷 毓賳 賰鬲丕亘 毓噩賷亘 賵乇睾亘鬲賷 丕賱丿賮賷賳丞 賮賷 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賴賳丕賰 丨賯賷賯丞 賱丕 禺賷丕賱丕 賰鬲丕亘 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲禺胤賵胤丞 ... 賰匕賱賰 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賱丕丨馗丞 丕賱匕賰賷丞 毓賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷賳 賷乇賵賳 賰鬲亘丕 賮賷 氐賵乇丞 賮賷丨丕賵賱賵賳 賯乇丕亍丞 毓賳丕賵賷賳賴丕 :) 兀賳丕 賲賳 賴丐賱丕亍 :))
兀丨夭賳鬲賳賷 賮賰乇丞 兀賳賳丕 賮賷 賲噩賲賵毓賳丕 賰亘卮乇 賱賲 賵賱賳 賳賯乇兀 兀亘丿丕 賰賱 賲丕 賰購鬲賽亘賻 賲賳 賰購鬲購亘賿貙 賮賴賳丕賰 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賲賳 丕賱賲禺丕亘賷賱 賲賳 丿賲乇賵丕 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賰丕賲賱丞 賵兀毓丿賲賵丕 賰鬲亘丕 亘毓賷賳賴丕 賵賰賳鬲 兀毓鬲賯丿 匕賱賰 丨亘賰丞 賲賳 丨亘賰丕鬲 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賮賯胤 .... 丿丕卅賲丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲 兀丨夭賳 毓賱賶 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱兀爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 睾賷乇 毓丕賱賲丞 亘兀賳 睾賷乇賴丕 賯丿 胤丕賱鬲賴 賲氐丕卅乇 賲乇賵毓丞
賱賲 兀鬲禺賷賱 兀賳 賷丨乇賯 丕賱賲賳鬲氐乇 賮賷 丕賱丨乇賵亘 賰鬲亘 毓丿賵賴 !!! 賵爻丕賯 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 兀賲孬賱丞 賰孬賷乇丞 賱毓賱 兀亘乇夭賴丕 賵兀賴賲賴丕 賲丕 賮毓賱賴 丕賱賳丕夭賷賵賳 亘賰賱 賲丕 賳鬲噩 賲賳 賰鬲亘 兀賱賮賴丕 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賵賲丕 賮毓賱賴 賮賷 丕賱賯乇丕亍 賲賳賴賲 丨鬲賶 賲毓 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷丞 賵廿賳賳賷 賱兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賱丨賷丕丿 賮賷 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱禺氐賵氐 賵賯賱鬲 賮賷 賳賮爻賷 爻賷爻丕毓丿賳賷 匕賱賰 賮賷 鬲賯亘賱 賮賰乇丞 乇賵丕賷丞
The Book Theif
丨賷賳賲丕 丕賯乇兀賴丕 賵賱賳 兀噩丿賴丕 亘乇賵亘丕噩丕賳丿丕 賲賳 丕賱鬲賷 丕毓鬲丿賳丕賴丕 賲賳賴賲
兀鬲匕賰乇 賲丨丕囟乇丞 "鬲賳馗賷賲 丿賵賱賷" 賵賰丕賳 丕賱賲丨丕囟乇 賴賵 丿. 卮賵賯賷 丕賱爻賷丿 毓亘丿 丕賱毓丕賱 賵丕賱匕賷 氐丕乇 亘毓丿 鬲禺乇噩賷 賲爻丕毓丿 賵夭賷乇丞 丕賱賯賵賶 丕賱毓丕賲賱丞 賵丕賱賴噩乇丞 ! 賴匕賴 丕賱賲賳賮乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰乇賴鬲 賱賯丕卅賴丕 亘賳丕 賮賷 廿胤丕乇 賵乇卮丞 毓賲賱 賱賲賳馗賲丞 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱兀賱賲丕賳賷丞 ... 賰丕賳鬲 賲丨丕囟乇鬲賴 鬲鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱丨乇亘 毓賱賶 丕賱毓乇丕賯 ... 丕爻鬲乇噩毓鬲 賮賷 匕丕賰乇鬲賷 賲賳馗乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 賵丕賱賲鬲丕丨賮 丕賱賲爻賱賵亘丞 賵丕賱賲賳賴賵亘丞 賵丕賱賲丿賲乇丞 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賲亘毓孬乇丞 ... 賱丕 兀鬲匕賰乇 爻丐丕賱賴乇丨賷賳賴丕 賵廿賳賲丕 兀鬲匕賰乇 噩賵丕亘賷 毓賳 禺賵賮 賷賱丕夭賲賳賷 賲賳 兀胤賮丕賱 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵賱賰賳 賱賷爻 賲賳 丕賱氐睾丕乇 賲賳賴賲 賮賴丐賱丕亍 兀賲乇賴賲 爻賴賱 賵賳乇賶 亘毓囟賴賲 丨賵賱 丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 賵賳爻丕毓丿賴賲 亘賱 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷賳 兀氐亘丨賵丕 賮賷 胤賵乇 丕賱賲乇丕賴賯丞 賵丕賱卮亘丕亘 賴賲 賲賳 賷禺賷賮賵賳賳賷... 丕爻鬲睾乇亘 丕賱乇噩賱 賮鬲丕亘毓鬲 ... 兀丨亘 兀賳 賳賴鬲賲 亘賴賲 賵賳賵賮乇 賱賴賲 丕賱乇毓丕賷丞 賱兀賳 賲賳 賴丐賱丕亍 賯丿 賷兀鬲賷 丕賱賲乇鬲夭賯丞 賵丕賱亘賱胤噩賷丞 賮兀賷賳 丕賱丿賵賱丞 賲賳賴賲 ... 賱丕 兀毓賱賲 賱賲丕匕丕 丕爻鬲賲乇 賮賷 賲賳丕賯卮鬲賷 賵賱賰賳 爻兀賱賳賷 賰賷賮 賷爻丕毓丿賵賳賴賲責責 賯賱鬲 賱賴 亘賰賱 亘乇丕亍丞 賵氐丿賯 : 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 兀賳 鬲亘賳賷 丕賱爻賷丿丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵鬲賵賮乇 胤亘毓丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 賮賷 賲卮乇賵毓 賷丨賲賱 廿爻賲賴丕 賮賱鬲賲丨 丕賱兀賲賷丞 兀賵賱丕 兀賲賷丞 賴丐賱丕亍 賯亘賱 兀氐丨丕亘 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 ... 賮賱鬲丨亘亘 廿賱賷賴賲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵鬲毓乇賮賴賲 亘丕賱鬲乇丕孬 賵丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 ... 賱兀賳 賲賳 乇兀賷賳丕賴賲 毓賱賶 卮丕卮丕鬲 鬲賱賷賮夭賷賵賳丕鬲賳丕 賳賲鬲賱賰 賲賳賴賲 丕賱賲賱丕賷賷賳 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱鬲毓丿丕丿 賲氐乇 賵兀鬲賲賳賶 兀賱丕 兀乇賷 丕賱賷賵賲 丕賱匕賷 賷賯鬲丨賲 賮賷賴 賲鬲丨賮 兀賵 鬲爻乇賯 丕賱亘賳賵賰 賵丕賱賲丨丕賱 賵鬲丿賲乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 亘睾賱 賵丨賯丿 賲賳 賱丕 賷賮賴賲 賯賷賲鬲賴丕 ... 亘毓丿 兀賳 賯賱鬲 賲丕 賯賱鬲 氐賲鬲 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 賵氐賲鬲鬲 賵禺丕賮 兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 毓賱賷 賵賱賰賳 賱賱賴 丕賱丨賲丿 賱賲 賷胤丕賱賳賷 卮賷亍 噩乇丕亍 丕賳鬲賯丕丿賷 賱賱爻賷丿丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丨乇賲 丕賱乇卅賷爻 丕賱賲禺賱賵毓
丨夭賳鬲 賱賲丕 兀氐丕亘 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 丕賱毓乇丕賯 賮賷 丕賱睾夭賵 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 賵賲丕 兀氐丕亘 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賱亘賳丕賳 賮賷 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱兀賴賱賷丞 賲賳 賯氐賮 胤丕賱 亘毓囟 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 賷丕卅爻丞 賱鬲乇賲賷賲 賰鬲亘 賯丿賷賲丞 匕丕鬲 賯賷賲丞 賵亘毓囟賴丕 賱賲 賷氐賱丨 賱賱鬲乇賲賷賲 賵鬲賲 廿毓丿丕賲賴
賰賳鬲 丕賯乇兀 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵兀賮賰乇 兀賷賳 兀賳丕 賲賳 賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱賯乇丕亍責責 賰賲 賲賰鬲亘丞 毓丕賲丞 丿禺賱鬲責責 丿禺賱鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 賲氐乇 丕賱毓丕賲丞 賮賷 丕賱夭賲丕賱賰 賵賯丿 賰丕賳鬲 兀禺鬲賷 兀賲賷賳丞 賲賰鬲亘丞 賴賳丕賰 賵賱賲 兀爻鬲賮丿 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賷夭丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲毓賵囟 亘毓丿賴丕 賵丿禺賱鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱賰賵賳噩乇爻 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 丕賱賲亘賴乇丞 賮賷 氐賷賮 佗贍贍伲 賵兀丨賲賱 亘胤丕賯丞 毓囟賵賷鬲賴丕 (丕賱賰丕乇賳賷賴) 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賲賱 氐賵乇鬲賷 賯亘賱 丕賱丨噩丕亘 賵廿賲囟丕卅賷 亘禺胤 丕賱賷丿 :) 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 夭賷丕乇丕鬲 毓丕亘乇丞 ... 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 賯氐丿鬲賴丕 賱賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵丕賱亘丨孬 賰丕賳鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 賰賱賷鬲賷 ... 禺爻丕乇丞 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱囟丕卅毓 賵丕賱賮乇氐 丕賱囟丕卅毓丞 賵兀賱賮 禺爻丕乇丞
兀丨爻爻鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賷 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賰賱賲 毓賳 丕賱鬲乇賰賷夭 賮賷 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘氐賵鬲 毓丕賱賺貙 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 賴匕丕 兀爻賱賵亘賷 賮賷 丕賱賲匕丕賰乇丞 賵賯丿 爻乇丿 賲賲賷夭丕鬲 丕賱賰賱賲丞 丕賱賲爻賲賵毓丞 :)
賰丕賳鬲 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賲鬲毓亘丞 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 賷丿賮毓 賱賱鬲禺賷賱 賵丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賵丕賱鬲爻丕丐賱 賵丕賱爻乇丨丕賳 賵賷丨囟 毓賱賶 丕賱賱毓亘 亘賲丨鬲賵賷丕鬲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賵廿毓丕丿丞 鬲乇鬲賷亘賴丕 ... 賵賱賰賳 賲賲丕 夭丕丿 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 廿乇賴丕賯丕 賴賵 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賷鬲乇賰 丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱兀賱賲丕賳賷丞 賲孬賱丕 兀賵 賷鬲乇噩賲 亘丨乇賵賮 毓乇亘賷丞 賰兀賳 賷賯賵賱 ""亘亘賱賰 賱賷亘乇乇賷" ! 兀賵 賷鬲乇噩賲 丿賵賳 鬲賳爻賷賯 賱賱賮賯乇丕鬲 ... 賵賱賰賳 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賱賲 鬲丐孬乇 亘丕賱爻賱亘 毓賱賶 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賰賰賱 賮賯丿 兀丨亘亘鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 噩丿丕 賵兀丨亘 丕賱丕丨鬲賮丕馗 亘賴 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷鬲鬲亘毓 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵亘丕賱囟乇賵乇丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 ... 賷鬲鬲亘毓 丕賱賰賵丕乇孬 丕賱鬲賷 丨賱鬲 亘亘毓囟 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵賰匕賱賰 丕賱賰鬲亘
賱賳 兀賯賮 毓賳丿 鬲賯爻賷賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵賱賳 丕鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賰賱 丕賱賮氐賵賱 ... 賮賯胤 爻兀鬲锟斤拷丿孬 毓賳 賲卮丕毓乇賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 ... 兀賳丕 夭賵噩丞 賵兀賲 賵賯氐鬲賷 賲毓 丕賱毓賵丿丞 賱卮睾賮賷 丕賱賯丿賷賲 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賷毓賱賲丕 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賰賱 兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 賴賳丕 賮賯丿 賰鬲亘鬲賴丕 賮賷 賯爻賲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丕鬲 賵鬲馗賴乇 賲賳 丨賷賳 賱丌禺乇 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 ... 兀賴鬲賲 賰孬賷乇丕 亘亘賳丕亍 賲賰鬲亘丞 禺丕氐丞 賮賷 賲賳夭賱賷 賵兀鬲賲賳賶 兀賳 賷噩丿賴丕 兀胤賮丕賱賷 賲孬賷乇丞 賱賴賲 賵丕賳 賷噩丿賵丕 賮賷 賰鬲亘賴丕 賲鬲毓鬲賴賲 賰賲丕 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 兀賲賴賲 ... 賵賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱卮兀賳 賵丿丿鬲 兀賳 賷賵囟丨 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賲賵賯賮 丕亘賳丕卅賴 賲賳 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘禺丕氐丞 賵兀賳賴 賯丿 噩丕亍 毓賱賶 匕賰乇賴賲 毓賳丿賲丕 賵囟丨 乇丿 賮毓賱賴賲 賵賯賵賱賴賲 兀賳賴賲 賷丨鬲丕噩賵賳 賰丕乇鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 賱賱鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 丿禺賵賱 亘賷鬲賴賲 賵賯丿 丕賳鬲卮乇鬲 賮賷賴丕 丕賱賰鬲亘
兀毓噩亘鬲賳賷 賰匕賱賰 賮賰乇丞 毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賵賴賲賷丞 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 丕賱賵賴賲賷丞 賵丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賲賳 亘賳丕鬲 兀賮賰丕乇 兀丨丿 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賱爻禺乇賷丞 賲賳 賰鬲亘 亘毓賷賳賴丕 賮賷 毓氐乇賴貙 賵賱賷 賲賳 丕賱兀氐丿賯丕亍 毓賱賶 丕賱賮賷爻亘賵賰 賲賳 賷賯賵賲賵賳 亘卮賷亍 卮亘賷賴 亘匕賱賰 ... 賵鬲匕賰乇鬲 丨賷賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 "賲禺胤賵胤丞 丕亘賳 丕爻丨丕賯" 賵賴賷 毓賳 賰鬲丕亘 毓噩賷亘 賵乇睾亘鬲賷 丕賱丿賮賷賳丞 賮賷 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賴賳丕賰 丨賯賷賯丞 賱丕 禺賷丕賱丕 賰鬲丕亘 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲禺胤賵胤丞 ... 賰匕賱賰 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賱丕丨馗丞 丕賱匕賰賷丞 毓賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷賳 賷乇賵賳 賰鬲亘丕 賮賷 氐賵乇丞 賮賷丨丕賵賱賵賳 賯乇丕亍丞 毓賳丕賵賷賳賴丕 :) 兀賳丕 賲賳 賴丐賱丕亍 :))
兀丨夭賳鬲賳賷 賮賰乇丞 兀賳賳丕 賮賷 賲噩賲賵毓賳丕 賰亘卮乇 賱賲 賵賱賳 賳賯乇兀 兀亘丿丕 賰賱 賲丕 賰購鬲賽亘賻 賲賳 賰購鬲購亘賿貙 賮賴賳丕賰 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賲賳 丕賱賲禺丕亘賷賱 賲賳 丿賲乇賵丕 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賰丕賲賱丞 賵兀毓丿賲賵丕 賰鬲亘丕 亘毓賷賳賴丕 賵賰賳鬲 兀毓鬲賯丿 匕賱賰 丨亘賰丞 賲賳 丨亘賰丕鬲 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賮賯胤 .... 丿丕卅賲丕 賲丕 賰賳鬲 兀丨夭賳 毓賱賶 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱兀爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 睾賷乇 毓丕賱賲丞 亘兀賳 睾賷乇賴丕 賯丿 胤丕賱鬲賴 賲氐丕卅乇 賲乇賵毓丞
賱賲 兀鬲禺賷賱 兀賳 賷丨乇賯 丕賱賲賳鬲氐乇 賮賷 丕賱丨乇賵亘 賰鬲亘 毓丿賵賴 !!! 賵爻丕賯 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 兀賲孬賱丞 賰孬賷乇丞 賱毓賱 兀亘乇夭賴丕 賵兀賴賲賴丕 賲丕 賮毓賱賴 丕賱賳丕夭賷賵賳 亘賰賱 賲丕 賳鬲噩 賲賳 賰鬲亘 兀賱賮賴丕 丕賱賷賴賵丿 賵賲丕 賮毓賱賴 賮賷 丕賱賯乇丕亍 賲賳賴賲 丨鬲賶 賲毓 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷丞 賵廿賳賳賷 賱兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賱丨賷丕丿 賮賷 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱禺氐賵氐 賵賯賱鬲 賮賷 賳賮爻賷 爻賷爻丕毓丿賳賷 匕賱賰 賮賷 鬲賯亘賱 賮賰乇丞 乇賵丕賷丞
The Book Theif
丨賷賳賲丕 丕賯乇兀賴丕 賵賱賳 兀噩丿賴丕 亘乇賵亘丕噩丕賳丿丕 賲賳 丕賱鬲賷 丕毓鬲丿賳丕賴丕 賲賳賴賲
兀鬲匕賰乇 賲丨丕囟乇丞 "鬲賳馗賷賲 丿賵賱賷" 賵賰丕賳 丕賱賲丨丕囟乇 賴賵 丿. 卮賵賯賷 丕賱爻賷丿 毓亘丿 丕賱毓丕賱 賵丕賱匕賷 氐丕乇 亘毓丿 鬲禺乇噩賷 賲爻丕毓丿 賵夭賷乇丞 丕賱賯賵賶 丕賱毓丕賲賱丞 賵丕賱賴噩乇丞 ! 賴匕賴 丕賱賲賳賮乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰乇賴鬲 賱賯丕卅賴丕 亘賳丕 賮賷 廿胤丕乇 賵乇卮丞 毓賲賱 賱賲賳馗賲丞 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱兀賱賲丕賳賷丞 ... 賰丕賳鬲 賲丨丕囟乇鬲賴 鬲鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱丨乇亘 毓賱賶 丕賱毓乇丕賯 ... 丕爻鬲乇噩毓鬲 賮賷 匕丕賰乇鬲賷 賲賳馗乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 賵丕賱賲鬲丕丨賮 丕賱賲爻賱賵亘丞 賵丕賱賲賳賴賵亘丞 賵丕賱賲丿賲乇丞 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賲亘毓孬乇丞 ... 賱丕 兀鬲匕賰乇 爻丐丕賱賴乇丨賷賳賴丕 賵廿賳賲丕 兀鬲匕賰乇 噩賵丕亘賷 毓賳 禺賵賮 賷賱丕夭賲賳賷 賲賳 兀胤賮丕賱 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵賱賰賳 賱賷爻 賲賳 丕賱氐睾丕乇 賲賳賴賲 賮賴丐賱丕亍 兀賲乇賴賲 爻賴賱 賵賳乇賶 亘毓囟賴賲 丨賵賱 丕賱噩丕賲毓丞 賵賳爻丕毓丿賴賲 亘賱 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷賳 兀氐亘丨賵丕 賮賷 胤賵乇 丕賱賲乇丕賴賯丞 賵丕賱卮亘丕亘 賴賲 賲賳 賷禺賷賮賵賳賳賷... 丕爻鬲睾乇亘 丕賱乇噩賱 賮鬲丕亘毓鬲 ... 兀丨亘 兀賳 賳賴鬲賲 亘賴賲 賵賳賵賮乇 賱賴賲 丕賱乇毓丕賷丞 賱兀賳 賲賳 賴丐賱丕亍 賯丿 賷兀鬲賷 丕賱賲乇鬲夭賯丞 賵丕賱亘賱胤噩賷丞 賮兀賷賳 丕賱丿賵賱丞 賲賳賴賲 ... 賱丕 兀毓賱賲 賱賲丕匕丕 丕爻鬲賲乇 賮賷 賲賳丕賯卮鬲賷 賵賱賰賳 爻兀賱賳賷 賰賷賮 賷爻丕毓丿賵賳賴賲責責 賯賱鬲 賱賴 亘賰賱 亘乇丕亍丞 賵氐丿賯 : 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 兀賳 鬲亘賳賷 丕賱爻賷丿丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵鬲賵賮乇 胤亘毓丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 賮賷 賲卮乇賵毓 賷丨賲賱 廿爻賲賴丕 賮賱鬲賲丨 丕賱兀賲賷丞 兀賵賱丕 兀賲賷丞 賴丐賱丕亍 賯亘賱 兀氐丨丕亘 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 ... 賮賱鬲丨亘亘 廿賱賷賴賲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵鬲毓乇賮賴賲 亘丕賱鬲乇丕孬 賵丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 ... 賱兀賳 賲賳 乇兀賷賳丕賴賲 毓賱賶 卮丕卮丕鬲 鬲賱賷賮夭賷賵賳丕鬲賳丕 賳賲鬲賱賰 賲賳賴賲 丕賱賲賱丕賷賷賳 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱鬲毓丿丕丿 賲氐乇 賵兀鬲賲賳賶 兀賱丕 兀乇賷 丕賱賷賵賲 丕賱匕賷 賷賯鬲丨賲 賮賷賴 賲鬲丨賮 兀賵 鬲爻乇賯 丕賱亘賳賵賰 賵丕賱賲丨丕賱 賵鬲丿賲乇 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 亘睾賱 賵丨賯丿 賲賳 賱丕 賷賮賴賲 賯賷賲鬲賴丕 ... 亘毓丿 兀賳 賯賱鬲 賲丕 賯賱鬲 氐賲鬲 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 賵氐賲鬲鬲 賵禺丕賮 兀氐丿賯丕卅賷 毓賱賷 賵賱賰賳 賱賱賴 丕賱丨賲丿 賱賲 賷胤丕賱賳賷 卮賷亍 噩乇丕亍 丕賳鬲賯丕丿賷 賱賱爻賷丿丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丨乇賲 丕賱乇卅賷爻 丕賱賲禺賱賵毓
丨夭賳鬲 賱賲丕 兀氐丕亘 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 丕賱毓乇丕賯 賮賷 丕賱睾夭賵 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 賵賲丕 兀氐丕亘 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賱亘賳丕賳 賮賷 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱兀賴賱賷丞 賲賳 賯氐賮 胤丕賱 亘毓囟 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 賷丕卅爻丞 賱鬲乇賲賷賲 賰鬲亘 賯丿賷賲丞 匕丕鬲 賯賷賲丞 賵亘毓囟賴丕 賱賲 賷氐賱丨 賱賱鬲乇賲賷賲 賵鬲賲 廿毓丿丕賲賴
賰賳鬲 丕賯乇兀 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵兀賮賰乇 兀賷賳 兀賳丕 賲賳 賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱賯乇丕亍責責 賰賲 賲賰鬲亘丞 毓丕賲丞 丿禺賱鬲責責 丿禺賱鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 賲氐乇 丕賱毓丕賲丞 賮賷 丕賱夭賲丕賱賰 賵賯丿 賰丕賳鬲 兀禺鬲賷 兀賲賷賳丞 賲賰鬲亘丞 賴賳丕賰 賵賱賲 兀爻鬲賮丿 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賷夭丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲毓賵囟 亘毓丿賴丕 賵丿禺賱鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱賰賵賳噩乇爻 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷 丕賱賲亘賴乇丞 賮賷 氐賷賮 佗贍贍伲 賵兀丨賲賱 亘胤丕賯丞 毓囟賵賷鬲賴丕 (丕賱賰丕乇賳賷賴) 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賲賱 氐賵乇鬲賷 賯亘賱 丕賱丨噩丕亘 賵廿賲囟丕卅賷 亘禺胤 丕賱賷丿 :) 賵賱賰賳賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 夭賷丕乇丕鬲 毓丕亘乇丞 ... 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 賯氐丿鬲賴丕 賱賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵丕賱亘丨孬 賰丕賳鬲 賲賰鬲亘丞 賰賱賷鬲賷 ... 禺爻丕乇丞 賰賱 賴匕丕 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱囟丕卅毓 賵丕賱賮乇氐 丕賱囟丕卅毓丞 賵兀賱賮 禺爻丕乇丞
兀丨爻爻鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賷 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賰賱賲 毓賳 丕賱鬲乇賰賷夭 賮賷 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 亘氐賵鬲 毓丕賱賺貙 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 賴匕丕 兀爻賱賵亘賷 賮賷 丕賱賲匕丕賰乇丞 賵賯丿 爻乇丿 賲賲賷夭丕鬲 丕賱賰賱賲丞 丕賱賲爻賲賵毓丞 :)
賰丕賳鬲 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賲鬲毓亘丞 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 賷丿賮毓 賱賱鬲禺賷賱 賵丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賵丕賱鬲爻丕丐賱 賵丕賱爻乇丨丕賳 賵賷丨囟 毓賱賶 丕賱賱毓亘 亘賲丨鬲賵賷丕鬲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賵廿毓丕丿丞 鬲乇鬲賷亘賴丕 ... 賵賱賰賳 賲賲丕 夭丕丿 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 廿乇賴丕賯丕 賴賵 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 丕丨賷丕賳丕 賷鬲乇賰 丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱兀賱賲丕賳賷丞 賲孬賱丕 兀賵 賷鬲乇噩賲 亘丨乇賵賮 毓乇亘賷丞 賰兀賳 賷賯賵賱 ""亘亘賱賰 賱賷亘乇乇賷" ! 兀賵 賷鬲乇噩賲 丿賵賳 鬲賳爻賷賯 賱賱賮賯乇丕鬲 ... 賵賱賰賳 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賱賲 鬲丐孬乇 亘丕賱爻賱亘 毓賱賶 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賰賰賱 賮賯丿 兀丨亘亘鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 噩丿丕 賵兀丨亘 丕賱丕丨鬲賮丕馗 亘賴 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賷
September 26, 2012
This is a book I'm tempted to add to my "Favorites" list, an honor even more prestigious than my "5-star-books" list. It's not that I don't have a few complaints about the book, but this may just have been the perfect book at the perfect time for me. Recently, Life (new job, new baby mainly) has been inhibiting my regular-reading and, dare I say, my ability to become absorbed in a good book, all of which has caused my book-a-week pace to fall to a pathetic book-or-two-a-month pace. That is why I must say the following with emphasis:
There is no better book to extol the joys of reading than The Library at Night. (None that I have come across, at least.)
In the midst of my book-slump, I just read a 300 page book about libraries. Libraries. And it was marvelous! That's in large part due to the fact that it was about so much more than libraries: it covers human history, our collective memory, the power of words, the necessity of books, and the sheer ebullience that reading evokes.
Organized into fifteen "distinct" sections, Mangual's book is an exaltation of the many functions a library can serve. (Examples of chapter titles: The Library As...Myth, Order, Space, Power, Shadow, Shape, Chance, Workshop, Mind, Island Survival, Oblivion, Imagination, Identity, Home.) I write "distinct" sections because lines that separate his groupings are tenuous at best. Some of his tangents seem hardly to fit within the broader chapter heading. But this is nothing more than an organizational imperfection and does not in the least adulterate the pleasure of reading this. The monstrous volume of interesting tidbits and historical facts is staggering (and interesting, and staggering, and infuriating only because I wish I could remember all of them!)
Actually, as I think about it, the real pleasure in reading this came from the ever-present sense of pleasure, so apparent!, that Manguel must have had writing this. It's worth emphasizing the following also:
I have never read a book that elicited such empathy. Warning: what follows is a teerrrrrible analogy that doesn't do the book justice. It's like watching the gag reel on a dvd. The funniest parts, for me at least, are when you get to see the actors just cracking up. You know they're having a blast, and (warning: cliche) that laughter is contagious. Reading this book, you are witness to Mangual's passion for books, and I find it hard not to affected by that.
At the outset, I mentioned that I read this at the right time. Maybe not. I simply can't imagine how much I might have enjoyed it were I in the height of one of my own torrid affairs with literature. I guess I'll find out when I re-read it someday.
Finally, another aspect of this that urges me to add it to my favorites is that I feel I can pick it up, open a page at random, and be blown away by Manguel's love of libraries and all that they represent. This would be a perfect book for Samuel Johnson, who "read with no method or discipline, sometimes leaving books uncut and following the text only where the pages fell open" (255).
A Couple Great Quotations (really tough to pare it down to a couple)
-The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their present. It grants them a glimpse, however secret or distant, into the minds of other human beings, and allows them a certain knowledge of their own condition through the stories stored here for their perusal. Above all, it tells readers that their craft consist of the power to remember, actively, through the prompt of the page, selected moments of the human experience. This was the great practice established by the Library of Alexandria鈥� (30-31).
-A study lends its owner, its privileged reader, what Seneca called euthymia, a Greek word which Seneca explained means 'well-being of the soul'" (188).
There is no better book to extol the joys of reading than The Library at Night. (None that I have come across, at least.)
In the midst of my book-slump, I just read a 300 page book about libraries. Libraries. And it was marvelous! That's in large part due to the fact that it was about so much more than libraries: it covers human history, our collective memory, the power of words, the necessity of books, and the sheer ebullience that reading evokes.
Organized into fifteen "distinct" sections, Mangual's book is an exaltation of the many functions a library can serve. (Examples of chapter titles: The Library As...Myth, Order, Space, Power, Shadow, Shape, Chance, Workshop, Mind, Island Survival, Oblivion, Imagination, Identity, Home.) I write "distinct" sections because lines that separate his groupings are tenuous at best. Some of his tangents seem hardly to fit within the broader chapter heading. But this is nothing more than an organizational imperfection and does not in the least adulterate the pleasure of reading this. The monstrous volume of interesting tidbits and historical facts is staggering (and interesting, and staggering, and infuriating only because I wish I could remember all of them!)
Actually, as I think about it, the real pleasure in reading this came from the ever-present sense of pleasure, so apparent!, that Manguel must have had writing this. It's worth emphasizing the following also:
I have never read a book that elicited such empathy. Warning: what follows is a teerrrrrible analogy that doesn't do the book justice. It's like watching the gag reel on a dvd. The funniest parts, for me at least, are when you get to see the actors just cracking up. You know they're having a blast, and (warning: cliche) that laughter is contagious. Reading this book, you are witness to Mangual's passion for books, and I find it hard not to affected by that.
At the outset, I mentioned that I read this at the right time. Maybe not. I simply can't imagine how much I might have enjoyed it were I in the height of one of my own torrid affairs with literature. I guess I'll find out when I re-read it someday.
Finally, another aspect of this that urges me to add it to my favorites is that I feel I can pick it up, open a page at random, and be blown away by Manguel's love of libraries and all that they represent. This would be a perfect book for Samuel Johnson, who "read with no method or discipline, sometimes leaving books uncut and following the text only where the pages fell open" (255).
A Couple Great Quotations (really tough to pare it down to a couple)
-The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their present. It grants them a glimpse, however secret or distant, into the minds of other human beings, and allows them a certain knowledge of their own condition through the stories stored here for their perusal. Above all, it tells readers that their craft consist of the power to remember, actively, through the prompt of the page, selected moments of the human experience. This was the great practice established by the Library of Alexandria鈥� (30-31).
-A study lends its owner, its privileged reader, what Seneca called euthymia, a Greek word which Seneca explained means 'well-being of the soul'" (188).
November 16, 2013
The greatest thing about any online site or program that allows a reader to create virtual shelves for books is that it allows the reader to create virtual shelves for books. If you have a library, a private library, than you know the contrasting feeling of joy of rearranging the books but also the terror of doing it. But you also know the joy of being surrounded by your books.
This is a book about books en masse for people who own them in masse. If you have two books, this is not the book for you. If you are worried about being crushed to death by library, read this. Once you have moved past envy for someone who has his own free standing library designed how he sees fit, you will fall in love with this book (and add more books to your own library).
In this book, Manuel takes the reader on a tour of that which they already know. It is how we see the library. Along the way, you will be told stories about the power of books, the importance of books, and the conflicting 鈥渁rghs鈥� that we go though when we shelve books.
It鈥檚 about books. It鈥檚 about the power of books.
In particular, in light of recent events on various reviews and reviewing sites, I think anyone who has followed those you want to call them, should read this book. The section on censorship alone is worth the cost of the book and points out the essential truth of censorship 鈥� we all censored, but then goes into the debate about how far is too far.
This is a book about books en masse for people who own them in masse. If you have two books, this is not the book for you. If you are worried about being crushed to death by library, read this. Once you have moved past envy for someone who has his own free standing library designed how he sees fit, you will fall in love with this book (and add more books to your own library).
In this book, Manuel takes the reader on a tour of that which they already know. It is how we see the library. Along the way, you will be told stories about the power of books, the importance of books, and the conflicting 鈥渁rghs鈥� that we go though when we shelve books.
It鈥檚 about books. It鈥檚 about the power of books.
In particular, in light of recent events on various reviews and reviewing sites, I think anyone who has followed those you want to call them, should read this book. The section on censorship alone is worth the cost of the book and points out the essential truth of censorship 鈥� we all censored, but then goes into the debate about how far is too far.
November 9, 2013
"賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 賷鬲睾賷賾乇 丕賱噩賵賾 賵鬲氐亘丨 丕賱兀氐賵丕鬲 賲賰鬲賵賲丞 賵丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 賷氐賷乇 氐賵鬲賴丕 兀毓賱賶. 丕賱賵賯鬲 賷亘丿賵 兀賯乇亘 廿賱賶 鬲賱賰 丕賱賱丨馗丞 賮賷 賲賳鬲氐賮 丕賱胤乇賷賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賷賯馗丞 賵丕賱賳賵賲. 亘賽乇賻賰 丕賱囟賵亍 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲爻乇賾亘 賲賳 丕賱賲氐丕亘賷丨 鬲卮毓乇賳賷 亘丕賱丿賮亍. 賵賮賷 乇丕卅丨丞 丕賱乇賮賵賮 丕賱禺卮亘賷丞 賵毓胤乇 丕賱賲爻賰 丕賱賲賳亘毓孬 賲賳 丕賱兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱噩賱丿賷丞 賲丕 賷賰賮賷 賱鬲賴丿卅丞 丕賱兀毓氐丕亘 賵廿毓丿丕丿 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賳賮爻賴 賱賱賳賵賲".
賮賷 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀噩賵丕亍...賷噩賱爻 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 亘乇賮賯丞 賰鬲亘賴 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷毓賵丿 鬲丕乇賷禺 亘賳丕卅賴丕 賱賱賯乇賳 丕賱禺丕賲爻 毓卮乇 丕賱賲賷賱丕丿賷...賱賷丨丿孬賳丕 毓賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵賲賯鬲賳賷丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵賲丐爻爻賷賴丕...胤丕乇賯丕 兀亘賵丕亘丕 鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞 兀鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴丕 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶...
賱賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 毓賱丕賯丞 丨賲賷賲賷丞 亘賰鬲亘賴 賵賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 噩毓賱鬲賴 賷鬲賲賳賶 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 兀賲賷賳 賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 卮亘丕亘賴貙 賵噩毓賱鬲賴 賷賯鬲賳賷 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱丿乇噩丞 兀氐亘丨鬲 鬲賴丿丿 亘胤賲爻 丨丿賵丿 亘賷鬲賴...賵丨丿賷孬賴 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘賴 賴匕丕 賷鬲賲丨賵乇 丨賵賱 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賵賲馗丕賴乇賴丕...賷賲賳丨 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丨賷丕丞
丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞...兀爻胤賵乇丞...鬲乇鬲賷亘丕...賲賰丕賳丕...爻賱胤丞...胤賷賮丕...卮賰賱丕...毓丕賲賱 賲氐丕丿賮丞...賵乇卮丞 毓賲賱...毓賯賱丕...噩夭賷乇丞...賵爻賷賱丞 亘賯丕亍...禺賷丕賱丕...賴賵賷丞...賵胤賳丕
禺賲爻丞 毓卮乇 賮氐賱丕...囟賲賳賴丕 鬲噩乇亘鬲賴 丕賱禺丕氐丞 賲毓 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲...賵鬲卮賷 亘爻毓丞 賲毓乇賮鬲賴 賵賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲賴...賮賮賷 噩毓亘鬲賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賯氐氐 賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丕鬲 賵丕賱氐賵乇...賵賱鬲丕乇賷禺賳丕 丕賱毓乇亘賷 賵丕賱廿爻賱丕賲賷 賳氐賷亘 賰亘賷乇 賮賷 匕賱賰...賵賴匕丕 賲賲丕 夭丕丿賳賷 賮禺乇丕 賵夭丕丿 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賲鬲毓丞...丨鬲賶 噩毓賱賳賷 兀毓賵丿 賱爻賷乇丞 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞 賵兀賯乇兀 毓賳賴.
賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 亘氐乇丕丨丞 賲亘丿毓 賮賷 胤乇丨賴...兀爻賱賵亘賴 賲賲鬲毓 爻賱爻...賵鬲賳丕賵賱賴 賱賱賲賵囟賵毓 賲亘鬲賰乇 賵賲賲賷夭
賵賮賷 賰賱 氐賮丨丞 爻鬲噩丿 賲賳賴...廿囟丕亍丞...毓亘丕乇丞 噩賲賷賱丞...賱賮鬲丞 睾乇賷亘丞...鬲禺賷賱丕鬲 毓噩賷亘丞
賮賮賷 賲禺賷賱鬲賴 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲乇賯氐...鬲睾賳賷...鬲鬲胤丕賷乇...鬲賲夭賯 亘毓囟賴丕
"賰賱賾 賰鬲丕亘 賷賳丕丿賷 毓賱賶 丕賱丌禺乇 亘卮賰賱 睾賷乇 賲鬲賵賯賾毓. 賵賳氐賮 爻胤乇 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷鬲乇丿賾丿 氐丿丕賴 賮賷 爻胤乇 丌禺乇 賱兀爻亘丕亘 賯丿 賱丕 鬲賰賵賳 賵丕囟丨丞 賮賷 囟賵亍 丕賱賳賴丕乇. 賵廿匕丕 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕乇 氐丿賶 賱賱賳馗丕賲 賵丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘 丕賱卮丿賷丿 賵丕賱賲胤賱賵亘 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賮廿賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 鬲亘丿賵 賮乇丨丞 亘丕賱鬲卮賵賾卮 丕賱賲亘賴噩 賱賱兀卮賷丕亍 賮賷 丕賱禺丕乇噩".
賲鬲丨丿孬丕 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賲賳匕 丕賱賯丿賲...賲賳 亘賳丕賴丕...賵賲賳 爻丕賴賲 賮賷 賴丿賲賴丕 賵丨乇賯 賰鬲亘賴丕 賱賷丿賲乇 丨囟丕乇丞 賰丕賲賱丞...賲賳 亘乇噩 亘丕亘賱...廿賱賶 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 ...賵賰賴賵賮 賲賵睾丕賵 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳...賵賲賳 丌卮賵乇 亘丕賳賷亘丕賱 廿賱賶 夭賵賲丕乇丕睾丕 丕賱匕賷 丿賲乇 賲毓馗賲 賰鬲亘 丕賱兀夭鬲賷賰...賵丕賱賲爻賷丨賷賵賳 丕賱賰丕孬賵賱賷賰 丕賱匕賷賳 丿賲乇賵丕 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 丕賱賲賰爻賷賰 賵兀賲乇賷賰丕 丕賱賵爻胤賶...
賵賱丕 賷賳爻 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 賲賳毓鬲貙 賵丕丨鬲賮馗 亘賴丕 爻乇丕 賮賷 賲毓爻賰乇丕鬲 丕賱丕毓鬲賯丕賱貙 賵亘乇兀賷賴 "廿賳 賰鬲丕亘丕 賲賲賳賵毓丕 兀賵 賲丨乇賵賯丕 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 兀賰孬乇 鬲禺乇賷亘丕 賲賳 賰鬲丕亘 爻賱賷賲 賱兀賳賴貙 亘睾賷丕亘賴貙 賷賳丕賱 賳賵毓丕 賲賳 丕賱禺賱賵丿".
賵毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱乇賯賲賷丞 賵兀孬乇 賵噩賵丿賴丕貙 賮賷乇賶 兀賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賱賷爻鬲 卮賷卅丕 賲丕丿賾賷賾丕貙 亘賱 賴賷 噩賵賾 賵孬賯丕賮丞 賵鬲丕乇賷禺 賲鬲乇丕賰賲 賷睾乇賯 賮賷 毓賲賯 丕賱噩丿乇丕賳 賵丕賱兀乇賮賮. 賵賴賵 賷乇賶 兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賷購賯乇兀 毓賱賶 卮丕卮丞 賵賱丕 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賳賲賱賰賴 賵賱丕 兀賳 賳丨亘賾賴 兀賵 賳賲爻賰 亘賴 亘兀賷丿賷賳丕貙 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賳賴囟賲賴 兀賵 賳爻鬲賵毓亘賴 賮賷 毓賯賵賱賳丕
丨丿賷孬 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 賱丕 賷購賲賻賱賾...夭丕丿賳賷 丕乇鬲亘丕胤丕 乇賵丨賷賾丕 亘賰鬲亘賷 賵賲賰鬲亘鬲賷...賵卮噩毓賳賷 毓賱賶 賯乇丕亍丞 亘賯賷丞 賰鬲亘賴..賵廿賳 賰丕賳 睾賷乇 賲鬲乇丕亘胤 兀丨賷丕賳丕...賮賯丿 鬲禺賷賱鬲賴 賷噩賵賱 亘賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 賵賷鬲丨丿孬 賱賯乇丕卅賴...賮丕鬲丨丕 賰鬲丕亘丕 賲禺鬲賱賮丕 賮賷 賰賱 賲乇丞...賲睾賷乇丕 賵囟毓賷賾丞 噩賱賵爻賴 賵賲賰丕賳賴...賵賰兀賳 賮賷 噩毓亘鬲賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰賱丕賲 賵丕賱賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱賵賯鬲
賲賳 廿囟丕亍丕鬲 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱:
"賮賷 丕賱囟賵亍貙 賳賯乇兀 丕亘鬲賰丕乇丕鬲 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳貙 賵賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賳亘鬲賰乇 賯氐氐賳丕 丕賱禺丕氐賾丞".
"丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓乇賮賳丕 毓賳賴丕 賵賱賲 賳賲鬲賱賰賴丕 鬲毓亘乇 胤乇賷賯賳丕 賵鬲丿毓賵 賳賮爻賴丕 孬丕賳賷丞. 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 廿睾賵丕亍賳丕 賷賵賲賷賾丕 亘丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賲孬賷乇丞 賵丕賱兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱賲丨賷賾乇丞".
"賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲購囟丕亍 賲氐丕亘賷丨 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賷禺鬲賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷賾 賵賱丕 賷毓賵丿 賲賵噩賵丿丕 爻賵賶 賮乇丕睾 丕賱賰鬲亘".
"賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲貙 亘賷賳賲丕 丕賱賳丕賮匕丞 賲囟丕亍丞 賵氐賮賵賮 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲鬲兀賱賾賯貙 鬲氐亘丨 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賲爻丕丨丞 賲睾賱賯丞貙 賰賵賳丕賸 賱丕 卮賰賱 賱賴".
"賰賱賾 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 賰鬲亘賷 賴乇亘貙 廿賲賾丕 賲賳 丕賱賳丕乇 兀賵 丕賱賲丕亍 兀賵 睾亘丕乇 丕賱夭賲賳 兀賵 賲賳 丕賱賯乇賾丕亍 丕賱賲賴賲賱賷賳 兀賵 賷丿 丕賱乇賯賷亘貙 賵兀鬲賶 廿賱賶 賴賳丕 賰賷 賷丨賰賷 賱賷 賯氐賾鬲賴".
"賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 賴賳丕 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賷氐亘丨 賱賱兀卮亘丕丨 兀氐賵丕鬲".
"毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賯乇兀 賰鬲丕亘丕 賵兀賳鬲 噩丕賱爻 丿丕禺賱 丿丕卅乇丞 賮兀賳鬲 賱丕 鬲賯乇丐賴 亘賳賮爻 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賰賵賳 噩丕賱爻丕 丿丕禺賱 賲乇亘賾毓 兀賵 賮賷 睾乇賮丞 爻賯賮賴丕 賲賳禺賮囟 兀賵 賮賷 兀禺乇賶 匕丕鬲 毓賵丕乇囟 禺卮亘賷丞 毓丕賱賷丞".
"賰賱賾 賯丕乇卅 賲丕 賴賵 廿賱丕 賮氐賱 賵丕丨丿 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 賰鬲丕亘. 賵賲丕 賱賲 賷賳賯賱 賲丕 毓乇賮賴 賱賱丌禺乇賷賳 賮賰兀賳賾賴 丨賰賲 毓賱賶 匕賱賰 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 亘丕賱賲賵鬲 丨乇賯丕".
"丕賱賯氐氐 賴賷 匕丕賰乇鬲賳丕貙 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賴賷 賲爻鬲賵丿毓丕鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞貙 賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賴賷 丕賱丨乇賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 廿毓丕丿丞 鬲卮賰賷賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 廿賱賶 鬲噩丕乇亘賳丕 丕賱禺丕氐賾丞".
賮賷 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀噩賵丕亍...賷噩賱爻 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 亘乇賮賯丞 賰鬲亘賴 賮賷 賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷毓賵丿 鬲丕乇賷禺 亘賳丕卅賴丕 賱賱賯乇賳 丕賱禺丕賲爻 毓卮乇 丕賱賲賷賱丕丿賷...賱賷丨丿孬賳丕 毓賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賵賲賯鬲賳賷丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵賲丐爻爻賷賴丕...胤丕乇賯丕 兀亘賵丕亘丕 鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞 兀鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賷賴丕 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶...
賱賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 毓賱丕賯丞 丨賲賷賲賷丞 亘賰鬲亘賴 賵賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 噩毓賱鬲賴 賷鬲賲賳賶 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 兀賲賷賳 賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 卮亘丕亘賴貙 賵噩毓賱鬲賴 賷賯鬲賳賷 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱丿乇噩丞 兀氐亘丨鬲 鬲賴丿丿 亘胤賲爻 丨丿賵丿 亘賷鬲賴...賵丨丿賷孬賴 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘賴 賴匕丕 賷鬲賲丨賵乇 丨賵賱 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賵賲馗丕賴乇賴丕...賷賲賳丨 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丨賷丕丞
丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞...兀爻胤賵乇丞...鬲乇鬲賷亘丕...賲賰丕賳丕...爻賱胤丞...胤賷賮丕...卮賰賱丕...毓丕賲賱 賲氐丕丿賮丞...賵乇卮丞 毓賲賱...毓賯賱丕...噩夭賷乇丞...賵爻賷賱丞 亘賯丕亍...禺賷丕賱丕...賴賵賷丞...賵胤賳丕
禺賲爻丞 毓卮乇 賮氐賱丕...囟賲賳賴丕 鬲噩乇亘鬲賴 丕賱禺丕氐丞 賲毓 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲...賵鬲卮賷 亘爻毓丞 賲毓乇賮鬲賴 賵賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲賴...賮賮賷 噩毓亘鬲賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賯氐氐 賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丕鬲 賵丕賱氐賵乇...賵賱鬲丕乇賷禺賳丕 丕賱毓乇亘賷 賵丕賱廿爻賱丕賲賷 賳氐賷亘 賰亘賷乇 賮賷 匕賱賰...賵賴匕丕 賲賲丕 夭丕丿賳賷 賮禺乇丕 賵夭丕丿 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賲鬲毓丞...丨鬲賶 噩毓賱賳賷 兀毓賵丿 賱爻賷乇丞 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞 賵兀賯乇兀 毓賳賴.
賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 亘氐乇丕丨丞 賲亘丿毓 賮賷 胤乇丨賴...兀爻賱賵亘賴 賲賲鬲毓 爻賱爻...賵鬲賳丕賵賱賴 賱賱賲賵囟賵毓 賲亘鬲賰乇 賵賲賲賷夭
賵賮賷 賰賱 氐賮丨丞 爻鬲噩丿 賲賳賴...廿囟丕亍丞...毓亘丕乇丞 噩賲賷賱丞...賱賮鬲丞 睾乇賷亘丞...鬲禺賷賱丕鬲 毓噩賷亘丞
賮賮賷 賲禺賷賱鬲賴 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲乇賯氐...鬲睾賳賷...鬲鬲胤丕賷乇...鬲賲夭賯 亘毓囟賴丕
"賰賱賾 賰鬲丕亘 賷賳丕丿賷 毓賱賶 丕賱丌禺乇 亘卮賰賱 睾賷乇 賲鬲賵賯賾毓. 賵賳氐賮 爻胤乇 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷鬲乇丿賾丿 氐丿丕賴 賮賷 爻胤乇 丌禺乇 賱兀爻亘丕亘 賯丿 賱丕 鬲賰賵賳 賵丕囟丨丞 賮賷 囟賵亍 丕賱賳賴丕乇. 賵廿匕丕 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賳賴丕乇 氐丿賶 賱賱賳馗丕賲 賵丕賱鬲乇鬲賷亘 丕賱卮丿賷丿 賵丕賱賲胤賱賵亘 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賮廿賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱 鬲亘丿賵 賮乇丨丞 亘丕賱鬲卮賵賾卮 丕賱賲亘賴噩 賱賱兀卮賷丕亍 賮賷 丕賱禺丕乇噩".
賲鬲丨丿孬丕 毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賲賳匕 丕賱賯丿賲...賲賳 亘賳丕賴丕...賵賲賳 爻丕賴賲 賮賷 賴丿賲賴丕 賵丨乇賯 賰鬲亘賴丕 賱賷丿賲乇 丨囟丕乇丞 賰丕賲賱丞...賲賳 亘乇噩 亘丕亘賱...廿賱賶 賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱廿爻賰賳丿乇賷丞 ...賵賰賴賵賮 賲賵睾丕賵 賮賷 丕賱氐賷賳...賵賲賳 丌卮賵乇 亘丕賳賷亘丕賱 廿賱賶 夭賵賲丕乇丕睾丕 丕賱匕賷 丿賲乇 賲毓馗賲 賰鬲亘 丕賱兀夭鬲賷賰...賵丕賱賲爻賷丨賷賵賳 丕賱賰丕孬賵賱賷賰 丕賱匕賷賳 丿賲乇賵丕 賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 丕賱賲賰爻賷賰 賵兀賲乇賷賰丕 丕賱賵爻胤賶...
賵賱丕 賷賳爻 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 賲賳毓鬲貙 賵丕丨鬲賮馗 亘賴丕 爻乇丕 賮賷 賲毓爻賰乇丕鬲 丕賱丕毓鬲賯丕賱貙 賵亘乇兀賷賴 "廿賳 賰鬲丕亘丕 賲賲賳賵毓丕 兀賵 賲丨乇賵賯丕 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 兀賰孬乇 鬲禺乇賷亘丕 賲賳 賰鬲丕亘 爻賱賷賲 賱兀賳賴貙 亘睾賷丕亘賴貙 賷賳丕賱 賳賵毓丕 賲賳 丕賱禺賱賵丿".
賵毓賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 丕賱乇賯賲賷丞 賵兀孬乇 賵噩賵丿賴丕貙 賮賷乇賶 兀賳 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賱賷爻鬲 卮賷卅丕 賲丕丿賾賷賾丕貙 亘賱 賴賷 噩賵賾 賵孬賯丕賮丞 賵鬲丕乇賷禺 賲鬲乇丕賰賲 賷睾乇賯 賮賷 毓賲賯 丕賱噩丿乇丕賳 賵丕賱兀乇賮賮. 賵賴賵 賷乇賶 兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賷購賯乇兀 毓賱賶 卮丕卮丞 賵賱丕 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賳賲賱賰賴 賵賱丕 兀賳 賳丨亘賾賴 兀賵 賳賲爻賰 亘賴 亘兀賷丿賷賳丕貙 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賳賴囟賲賴 兀賵 賳爻鬲賵毓亘賴 賮賷 毓賯賵賱賳丕
丨丿賷孬 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱 賱丕 賷購賲賻賱賾...夭丕丿賳賷 丕乇鬲亘丕胤丕 乇賵丨賷賾丕 亘賰鬲亘賷 賵賲賰鬲亘鬲賷...賵卮噩毓賳賷 毓賱賶 賯乇丕亍丞 亘賯賷丞 賰鬲亘賴..賵廿賳 賰丕賳 睾賷乇 賲鬲乇丕亘胤 兀丨賷丕賳丕...賮賯丿 鬲禺賷賱鬲賴 賷噩賵賱 亘賲賰鬲亘鬲賴 賵賷鬲丨丿孬 賱賯乇丕卅賴...賮丕鬲丨丕 賰鬲丕亘丕 賲禺鬲賱賮丕 賮賷 賰賱 賲乇丞...賲睾賷乇丕 賵囟毓賷賾丞 噩賱賵爻賴 賵賲賰丕賳賴...賵賰兀賳 賮賷 噩毓亘鬲賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰賱丕賲 賵丕賱賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱賵賯鬲
賲賳 廿囟丕亍丕鬲 賲丕賳睾賵賷賱:
"賮賷 丕賱囟賵亍貙 賳賯乇兀 丕亘鬲賰丕乇丕鬲 丕賱丌禺乇賷賳貙 賵賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賳亘鬲賰乇 賯氐氐賳丕 丕賱禺丕氐賾丞".
"丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓乇賮賳丕 毓賳賴丕 賵賱賲 賳賲鬲賱賰賴丕 鬲毓亘乇 胤乇賷賯賳丕 賵鬲丿毓賵 賳賮爻賴丕 孬丕賳賷丞. 賵丕賱賰鬲亘 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 廿睾賵丕亍賳丕 賷賵賲賷賾丕 亘丕賱毓賳丕賵賷賳 丕賱賲孬賷乇丞 賵丕賱兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱賲丨賷賾乇丞".
"賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲購囟丕亍 賲氐丕亘賷丨 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賷禺鬲賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷賾 賵賱丕 賷毓賵丿 賲賵噩賵丿丕 爻賵賶 賮乇丕睾 丕賱賰鬲亘".
"賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲貙 亘賷賳賲丕 丕賱賳丕賮匕丞 賲囟丕亍丞 賵氐賮賵賮 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲鬲兀賱賾賯貙 鬲氐亘丨 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞 賲爻丕丨丞 賲睾賱賯丞貙 賰賵賳丕賸 賱丕 卮賰賱 賱賴".
"賰賱賾 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 賰鬲亘賷 賴乇亘貙 廿賲賾丕 賲賳 丕賱賳丕乇 兀賵 丕賱賲丕亍 兀賵 睾亘丕乇 丕賱夭賲賳 兀賵 賲賳 丕賱賯乇賾丕亍 丕賱賲賴賲賱賷賳 兀賵 賷丿 丕賱乇賯賷亘貙 賵兀鬲賶 廿賱賶 賴賳丕 賰賷 賷丨賰賷 賱賷 賯氐賾鬲賴".
"賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱貙 賴賳丕 賮賷 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丞貙 賷氐亘丨 賱賱兀卮亘丕丨 兀氐賵丕鬲".
"毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賯乇兀 賰鬲丕亘丕 賵兀賳鬲 噩丕賱爻 丿丕禺賱 丿丕卅乇丞 賮兀賳鬲 賱丕 鬲賯乇丐賴 亘賳賮爻 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲賰賵賳 噩丕賱爻丕 丿丕禺賱 賲乇亘賾毓 兀賵 賮賷 睾乇賮丞 爻賯賮賴丕 賲賳禺賮囟 兀賵 賮賷 兀禺乇賶 匕丕鬲 毓賵丕乇囟 禺卮亘賷丞 毓丕賱賷丞".
"賰賱賾 賯丕乇卅 賲丕 賴賵 廿賱丕 賮氐賱 賵丕丨丿 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 賰鬲丕亘. 賵賲丕 賱賲 賷賳賯賱 賲丕 毓乇賮賴 賱賱丌禺乇賷賳 賮賰兀賳賾賴 丨賰賲 毓賱賶 匕賱賰 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 亘丕賱賲賵鬲 丨乇賯丕".
"丕賱賯氐氐 賴賷 匕丕賰乇鬲賳丕貙 賵丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲 賴賷 賲爻鬲賵丿毓丕鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞貙 賵丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賴賷 丕賱丨乇賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 廿毓丕丿丞 鬲卮賰賷賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱匕丕賰乇丞 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 廿賱賶 鬲噩丕乇亘賳丕 丕賱禺丕氐賾丞".
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