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There
are countries where
libraries are enormous and magnificent edifices: palaces of memory,
fortresses of knowledge, labyrinths similar to our brains and minds.
There are countries where there are no libraries at all – there is
no reason to build them since there are no books, while songs and
tales can be stored in one's head. This country is a country which
itself is a library. And this library itself is a book. And this book
itself is a library. And this library itself is a book. And this book
itself is a library. And so on . . . . . . So, is there any good
reason to have here an extra library? An independent, separate
library? A hardly visible book collection? A collection of books
hardly visible? Because just being build? Because just being written?
Because in progress? In plans? In dreams? Because being just an idea?
Ssome ideas scattered all around? Chaos in spite of ceaseless
attempts to put everything in order. Because always in constant
blossoming and growing. In constant transforming. In endless decaying
and rotting. In restless withering and wilting. In unnoticeable
yellowing of old paper . . . . . . . . It's hard to say what was the
reason of placing here this signboard: absent-mindedness? joke?
kidding? malice? wish to enhance the entanglement? mistake? chance?
accident? Or it has been forgotten. Just left. And it is. Now you are
here – you are in the library where there are no books. You can
borrow nothing. Would you like to
borrow anything? Suddenly you have
realised you have nothing you can read. No reading. It's strange,
isn't it? You are in the book and you have nothing to read. This can
happen. Different things can happen. . . . . . . Imagine
you have
just borrowed two books – it is as if you have just borrowed two
letters or two words from a book. And somebody else has just borrowed
three other letters or three other words. And somebody more else has
just taken one word home. And so on. Then somebody comes and wants to
borrow this book, just the one you and other guys have borrowed so
many various signs and words from. What would he take home? A
novel-sieve? A novel-fence? Or a novel-tree – words-leaves on
sentences-branches – and among them colourful birds and trembling
air apparently smelling nicely and undoubtedly shining . . . .
. you
can take or borrow a dried leaf – and a dried twig too – you can
heat with them a stove – there are increadibly lot of chances that
new twigs and new leaves will appear . . . . . So, if you
are here,
then come in >>>
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