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Topic: Library of Alexandria, Open again!
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Trespasser
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Babbler # 1204
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posted 16 October 2002 09:28 PM
Check out the architecture. I'll be predictable and link to Borges' Library of Babel. And here is a Bogesian historico-textual maze which you should visit. "Like all women of the Library, I have travelled in my youth..." [ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: Trespasser ]
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Tommy_Paine
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Babbler # 214
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posted 17 October 2002 10:30 PM
HypatiaThis source doesn't say it, but Hypatia is recognized in other sources as "the last librarian of Alexandria." quote: In the spring of 415 C.E., the situation reached a tragic conclusion when a band of Christian monks seized Hypatia on the street, beat her, and dragged her body to a church where they mutilated her flesh with sharp tiles and burned her remains.
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