“You would be well advised to keep this heresy to yourself, Heeth. But bookshelves are a graveyard. Your teachers might tell you that the Library is a temple to the written word, a cathedral of books. But it’s a tomb. The authors of those books wrote them to be read, not to rot – however slowly – on the shelf. We librarians, we preserve books. We treat them as something holy. Each with its precise place in some great plan we’re writing. There are few worse crimes in our lore than a broken spine, a dogeared page. But the men and women, the souls, the … things … that wrote those books cared
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