The Last Librarian (The Justar Journal #1)

by Brandt Legg

‘More powerful than armies and police, stronger than guns and bombs, words are what change the world, and that is why they’re always a threat to those that rule with corrupt ways.’

“A writer can only spread ideas. People still need to think about them, draw their own conclusions,”

It’s rarely the person with the idea that causes any trouble. Ideas get out there, take on a life of their own. They infect people.”

Don’t you see how tempting it is? They can change everything if there are no physical books to verify what was actually written. And not only that, they know everything we’ve read. What we haven’t read, what page we stopped on, what words you looked up, everything, everyone has read‒‒”

Orwell’s 1984? ‘Every book has been rewritten, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.’