An idea whose time has at last come. A sleep over library. It's across the ocean, and the subway stops short in Queens. Still it's there. Shakespeare, and Company in Paris has been taking in boarders also for decades. It's just I didn't know about this one.
Gladstone's Library in Flintshire U.K., see vid below is doing the deed. I'm now btw a regular Brooklyn main branch,...see above top, library maniac. Still no nice rooms for live in reader researchers, but give them time. It's quiet has pleasant brilliant helpful staff.
That, and the whole of human knowledge is pretty much a step or two away. One could get used to such.
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Did I mention their croissants, and orange juice.
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There is a statistical upsurge in disturbed behaviors. That we now have a disturbed president is not an accident. People tend to vote for those most like themselves. Unstable times unstable government disturbed president.
So the sort that one might find in a boarding library has a fair chance of being nuts. I mean more 'nuts' than those that value literacy.
You may not have as nice a time as you would have imagined.
Bring a large cream pie to throw.
...eh in self defense of course.
This is great. I love the idea of a residential library. May there be more.
Z
P.S. - Croissants are de rigueur: a sure sign of civilization.
Z
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