Why Do We Build the Wall, My Children, My Children?

Is there any physical object out there that carries quite as much weight and symbolism as a wall? The other day I was weeding my library’s 900 section and I ran across these two books.

Yup. Two books. From the 60s and 70s. Talking about that bummer of a structure, The Berlin Wall. We’ll get it down someday, folks! Clearly I need to get better at weeding. Reminds me of the time I found Cooking the East German Way in the children’s section. But I digress.

The point is that we were talking ab...