Taryn told her audience about Hulagu Khan—and talked about the predations of one faith against another, and books as a casualty of that. She talked about the deliberate or collateral destruction of libraries in preindustrial conflicts, dwelling on what happened to the library on Iona after the failure of William Wallace’s rebellion. She spoke of the two noble libraries bought for forty shillings during the reign of Henry VIII and used as toilet paper—and duly inventoried as a supply that lasted ten years. She told of the libraries of Buda and Pest burned by Suleiman the Magnificent. As an
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