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Sat 10 Nov, 2007 02:33 am
Libraries: a cave where genius abides
If you find no library card in your wallet or purse you are not a self-learner. You are at best a dilettante, a dabbler in knowledge.
A self-learner has a multitude of clamoring questions, in a multitude of domains of knowledge, seeking answers. To discover the nature of reality and the answers to these questions one must have access to a library of books.
Public libraries are not just for kids on field trips.
Public libraries are so much more than a book storage facility.
Public libraries are places where people from all walks of life are welcome.
Public libraries are wonder-filled places where people of ignorance can find genius, a place where the homeless can find shelter and where the educated can find inspiration.
Public libraries smell like knowledge and taste like wisdom.
Public libraries are truly beautiful from the inside out.
Visiting public libraries often and for long periods of time is a modern form of respecting our elders.
Humanity is summed up in the content of the written word which can be found in a public library near you.
To study the masters from within a public library is a humbling and awe-inspiring experience for some people.
The line I used to entice my girlfriend into becoming my wife; "My library card has recently been renewed."
-Savant
What's in your wallet?
You're freaking me out - and I'm a librarian...
Public libraries are good places to pick up.
I have never picked up in a library - not where I was a customer anyway.
hingehead wrote:I have never picked up in a library - not where I was a customer anyway.
Not so much the ease of the pick up, but the quality.
Are you coming on to me, dad?
hingehead wrote:Are you coming on to me, dad?
Not sure if I should write
eeewwwww!
or god forbid!!.
Have you caught the new ABC comedy series "The Librarian" Hinge?
Absolutely. "our country, our rules"!
Things must be slow in this forum if we're featured already...
Quote:Humanity is summed up in the content of the written word which can be found in a public library near you.
You've obviously not read Derrida !
OK, I'll get a little serious. In terms of genius, I consider libraries an 'environmental' factor.
You won't find a genius in every library and you won't only find geniuses in libraries.
Libraries a repositories (and gateways to repositories) of information. It isn't knowledge until some acquires and synthesizes it.
Libraries provide conditions that may enable genius but they don't guarantee genius will be created.
Libraries in big cities smell mostly like wino urine.
If it werent for university Libraries thered be no decent repositories left.
farmerman wrote:Libraries in big cities smell mostly like wino urine.
If it werent for university Libraries thered be no decent repositories left.
Publics aren't that bad here. I guess our homeless are less well-read.
farmerman wrote:Libraries in big cities smell mostly like wino urine.
If it werent for university Libraries thered be no decent repositories left.
You should come to Canada. Our libraries have bathrooms.
Not the point. All libraries have nice potties. Its just that our libraries , unlike those in CAnada, where they round up and shoot their homeless, become snctuary between hours that the kichens and homeless dorms are closed for cleaning.
Lotsa street people just dont wash, then they come to a library and sit there all day smelling like hell. Some cities have ordinances and harrass the streetfolks out. Some dont.
farmerman wrote:Not the point. All libraries have nice potties. Its just that our libraries , unlike those in CAnada, where they round up and shoot their homeless, become snctuary between hours that the kichens and homeless dorms are closed for cleaning.
Lotsa street people just dont wash, then they come to a library and sit there all day smelling like hell. Some cities have ordinances and harrass the streetfolks out. Some dont.
I seem to have missed the point. You, however, apparently did not use the library to research anything about Canada since we don't round up anybody. We are too busy passing Canadians through to the U.S. to spend our record high dollars.
Why would they harass the streetfolks out? Don't you have social programs to help the needy? How about the geniuses that frequent the library, couldn't they come up with some brilliant plan to keep their sanctuary void of the undesireables? Not that I consider them as such.
Trep, I can't believe I telling a Canadian to notice the irony in a seppo's post, but maybe I'm missing it in yours?
hingehead wrote:Trep, I can't believe I telling a Canadian to notice the irony in a seppo's post, but maybe I'm missing it in yours?
Sorry, but I may be daft and am missing the meaning of your post. I do want to understand it so could you please rephrase it for me.
Quote:I seem to have missed the point. You, however, apparently did not use the library to research anything about Canada since we don't round up anybody. We are too busy passing Canadians through to the U.S. to spend our record high dollars
You Canadians will believe anything. WAIT, When we get around to liberating your country for the store of WMD's that youve been piling up since Mulrooney , and convert all your Loonies and Toonies into AMEROS, youll have winos in your libraries , and therell be no more gravy on french fries. Those tracked vehicles ammassing at your borders are merely disguised as snowplows.
hinge -head
, Is this perhaps, one of the lesser known MArx Brothers
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