Recommended article: The library as a symptom of madness

“The Library is a symptom. Crazy. It is the Museum. It is all collecting: that juxtaposition of objects, from whose proximity we extract mysterious pleasures. What does a museum do when it brings together a Romanesque virgin, a Greek Zeus, a zoomorphic Egyptian god...? A sacrilege, in the first place, only thinkable after the loss of the sacred. It also erects a temple to the lost sacredness. And in that majestic anachronism is encrypted the highest of the human spirit. Same, the Library.”

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