Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced it herself more than once among the library's dense shelves; not knowing what she should read next, she'd wandered, sniffing slightly, palms open. When intuition hit, she felt a sensation she couldn't describe exactly: her hands seemed to know where to go. And when she reached, invariably she found exactly the book she needed at that moment - sometimes fiction, sometimes biography, sometimes a slim volume of obscure poetry
Masha HamiltonThose who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment. The putting of dispersed sets of volumes together, or the turning right way up of those which the dusting housemaid has left in an apoplectic condition, appeals to them as one of the lesser Works of Mercy. Happy in these employments, and in occasionally opening an eighteenth-century octavo, to see 'what it is all about,' and to conclude after five minutes that it deserves the seclusion it now enjoys, I had reached the middle of a wet August afternoon at Betton Court...
-the beginning of the story "A Neighbor's Landmark
Stichwörter: reading books library
Od pierwszego Adama, który ujrzał noc,
I dzień, i kształt swojej dłoni,
Ludzie snuli opowieści i utrwalali
W kamieniu, w metalu czy na pergaminie
To wszystko, co zawiera ziemia czy co tworzy sen.
Oto ich dzieło: Biblioteka.
Powiadają, że liczba jej woluminów
Przekracza liczbę ciał niebieskich
Czy ziaren piasku na pustyni. Człowiek,
Co chce ją wyczerpać,
Traci rozum i zuchwałe oczy.
Zawarta jest tu rozległa pamięć wieków
Minionych, miecze i bohaterowie,
Lakoniczne symbole algebry,
Wiedza, co sonduje planety
Rządzące przeznaczeniem,
Moce ziół i talizmanów ze słoniowej kości,
Wiersz, w którym trwa pieszczota,
Nauka, co rozszyfrowuje samotny
Labirynt Boga - teologia,
Alchemia, która w błocie szuka złota,
I formy wyobrażeń bałwochwalcy.
Niewierni twierdzą, że gdyby spłonęła,
Spłonęłaby historia. Lecz się mylą.
Te nieskończone księgi zostały spłodzone
Przez ludzką bezsenność. Jeśliby z nich wszystkich
Nie ocalała ani jedna, bezsenność
Spłodzi na nowo każdy wers i każdą kartę,
Wszystkie prace i każdą miłość Heraklesa,
Każdą lekcję każdego manuskryptu.
Teraz, w pierwszym stuleciu Hidżry,
Ja, ów Omar, co ujarzmił Persów
I narzuca Islam kuli ziemskiej,
Rozkazuję żołnierzom, by zniszczyli ogniem
Rozległą Bibliotekę,
Co nie zginie. Niech będzie pochwalony
Bóg, który nie śpi, i Muhammad, Prorok.
Stichwörter: library
All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
Larry BrownStichwörter: libraries library mississippi-authors
There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession.
Mary Virginia ProvinesStichwörter: reading books librarians joke library
Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must be learned or profound. They are food for the mind and different minds require different foods ; everyone is better for variety. Whatever stimulates the mind feeds it, be it fact, fiction or fable. That is where our responsibility lies ; in knowing what builds good mental blood and brawn, and in dispensing that only. Don't ever let yourself think you haven't time to read.
Mary Virginia ProvinesStichwörter: reading books knowledge librarians library
Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.
Mary Virginia ProvinesStichwörter: books people human-nature librarians library job
The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or the hush of people reading that made the three siblings feel so good as they walked into the room. It is useless for me to tell you all about the brass lamps in the shapes of different fish, or the bright blue curtains that rippled like water as a breeze came in from the window, because although these were wonderful things they were no what made the three children smile. The Quagmire triplets were smiling, too, and although I have not researched the Quagmires nearly as much as I have the Baudelaires, I can say with reasonable accuracy that they were smiling for the same reason.
Lemony SnicketStichwörter: friends books library
Touching him, kissing him, was like having a fever all over again. I was on fire. My body burned. The world burned. Sparks flew. Against his mouth, I moaned.
There was a POP! and CRACK!
The smell of burned plastic filled the cubicle. We pulled apart, breathing heavily. Over his shoulder I saw thin strips of smoke wafting from the top of the ancient monitor. Good God, was this going to happen every time we kissed?
Stichwörter: library daemon katy
A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk.
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