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a bibliophilic response to the book simply entitled Libraries by Candida Höfer--the nonist.
i want this book.
The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's classification of animals (Borges):
1.those that belong to the Emperor
2.embalmed ones
3.those that are trained
4.suckling pigs
5.mermaids
6.fabulous ones
7.stray dogs
8.those included in the present classification
9.those that tremble as if they were mad
10.innumerable ones
11.those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
12.others
13.those that have just broken a flower vase
14.those that from a long way off look like flies
or: what to do with words learned for the gre
Inchoate Idealist
Mistakes rooster for horse
Amiable Apiarist
Befriended by family of bears
Fledgling Farmer
Inadvertantly plows living room carpet
Obsequious Ostrich
Ruffles feathers
Lachrymose Lamb
Smells like wet dog
Protean Pigs
Dance the tango
Lilliputian Lady
Eaten alive by gang of mice
Neophyte Navigator
Sights virgin mary in aerial view of crop formation
Desultory Duck
Quacks up wrong tree
Plenipotent Peacock
Struts stuff
Recidivist Rat
Caught stealing
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
-Robertson Davies (Tempest Tost)
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
If you want to get laid go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
-Frank Zappa
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
-Lily Tomlin
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
-Carl T. Rowan
I didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group ... You think they're just sitting at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
-Michael Moore
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
-Barbara Kingsolver
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
-Isaac Asimov
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-Groucho Mark
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-John F. Kennedy
