The Power of Libraries
"You could destroy all the other Harvard buildings and, with Widener left standing, still have a university." G.L. Kittredge
A library is an institution, a living artifact produced by the strongest minds in human history. Physicists, poets, mathematicians, and historians line the shelves of time. Leaving behind stories of defeat and triumph, scorned lovers and romances. All kept within the covenant of backrooms, and between the ambiance of air conditioned hallways.
They are the central point of a university. For without them, the research needed to produce new knowledge would simply not exist. We would be forever starting over, rediscovering what was forgotten; remembering what was lost.
Books beget more books, and books are a key tenet to the preservation of a societies self-esteem. As those who had come before us are contained within parchment, and laid flat upon the manuscript. Sealing away their thoughts and experiences, to be presented to those of a latter day.
Libraries are in essence, time capsules of knowledge. Graveyards held in a semi-state of purgatory. A lucid dream wherein the dead of the past speak again. Recalling stories to the present, in order that they may return their memories to the living.
