I love the Library. All libraries. They are an universe. A million worlds waiting to be explored. I love to explore the stacks. To climb aboard my ship and fly to strange new places. To read other's thoughts. To be someone else for awhile, if only for a while.
Books open your mind to new thoughts like traveling does. Some reveal landscapes that other know as well as their selves. Others reveal lands that others know only inside themselves. And when I read, those lands become inside of me as well.
In books, we are gods. We create and we rule. We bring order and chaos. We know all but choose how much to reveal. We explore mystery, creating and destroying it at will. In writing, we know God and in reading, we know other gods.
And in a library we have a universe, and spaceship to take us to any land we wish at all.
For two weeks, plus two renewals.
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We're on break right now, and I'm trying to figure out what to write my thesis on next year. Which means I get to spend the next month chasing down all the things I'm interested in in the Bodleian Library. It's like a nerdy dream come true!!!
So, yeah, I totally understand!
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