The Ideal Library

To be able to find, in seconds , a half remembered quotation from Plato is something almost anyone can do today, thanks to electronic technology.
But to be able to retire with a dog-eared book, revisiting familiar haunts and scribbling on the margins, comforted by paper and ink, is something anyone should still be able to do.
Reading is the ability to enter a text and explore it to one's fullest individual capacities.
Young readers , like travellers who have only learned to drive automatic cars , no longer seem to be able to shift gears at will , relying instead on a vehicle that promises to take them everywhere.
" Though I believe in the obvious usefulness of a virtual library, I am not a user of e - books, those modern incarnations of the Assyrian tablets , nor of the Lilliputian ipods, nor the nostalgic Game Boys. I believe as Ray Bradbury put it, that "the internet is a big distraction" I am accustomed to the space of a page and the solid flesh of paper and ink. Make a book whatever one's experience, taste , intuition, and knowledge dictate.
(From A Reader on Reading - By Alberto Manguel)
In the ideal library it is never too warm or too cold.
The ideal library has no closing hours.
The ideal library allows scribbling in its books.
The ideal library is both popular and secret.

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[InuitAldebaran]

Inspiringly philosphical. Love the calming of the first part, music and video. The second, more vivid part, was good to read along and keep the attention up.

Very well done!!

The text by Alberto Manguel made me think of Douglas Adams...

[BravuraK]

@InuitAldebaran Thank you kind Jorg. Mr Adams.....well, what can one say.....perhaps brilliance! xx Susan

[Elefantter]

@InuitAldebaran Well said. I would like to add a remark.

After having reached 3, I also realise that it was against the natural order of things all from the beginning (1), and I could somehow sense it all the time, but I didn't reach it - I couldn't believe that (everyone in) the world actually is insane beyond comprehension and beyond articulation.

[InuitAldebaran]

...

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.