I always had this dream of going into the library on some quiet night and pushing down the first shelf in a row of shelves and watching all the rest fall down like dominoes. It's not because of some inbred hatred of libraries and books or some unexpressed anger with words and language expressed in written form, and how they elude me. No. I am a bibliophile and I simply enjoy watching dominoes fall and would love to try it in a larger and more complicated setting.
Of course there would be problems involving books and rare first editions and mismanagement and disciplinary committees and all sorts of accompanying punishments but in the long run I think I'd enjoy the memory of the sound of a thousand books. A million whispers. The pull of gravity on all knowledge and of course the chaos.
(Forgive my bad pun. I never really liked the Nicki Minaj original, girls fall like dominoes.)
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Of course there would be problems involving books and rare first editions and mismanagement and disciplinary committees and all sorts of accompanying punishments but in the long run I think I'd enjoy the memory of the sound of a thousand books. A million whispers. The pull of gravity on all knowledge and of course the chaos.
(Forgive my bad pun. I never really liked the Nicki Minaj original, girls fall like dominoes.)
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Now..this is a refreshing outlook to the use of libraries...I mean I do love books too but what I'd love more is to watch them go down like dominoes.
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