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meades
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posted 16 October 2002 06:40 PM      Profile for meades     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Click!
quote:
The formal opening of the Library of Alexandria
in Egypt, rebuilt on the site of the original
destroyed by fire in the 4th Century AD, has
taken place.


Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Cool!

[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: meades ]


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Trespasser
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posted 16 October 2002 09:28 PM      Profile for Trespasser   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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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flotsom
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posted 16 October 2002 09:36 PM      Profile for flotsom   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
the invisible library

the censored library


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Trespasser
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posted 16 October 2002 09:44 PM      Profile for Trespasser   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Flot, this Invisible Library is awesome, something like Malraux's Imaginary Museum, but more philosophically interesting. (And I know some people from Autodafe!)

I'll add Walter Benjamin's 'Unpacking My Library' to this collection of references.


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flotsom
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posted 16 October 2002 10:19 PM      Profile for flotsom   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Glad you like.

You know some good people!

There is some really fine writing at autodafe.

Thanks for the links, Trespasser.


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TommyPaineatWork
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posted 17 October 2002 02:45 AM      Profile for TommyPaineatWork     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
And in rememberance, we should all pause a moment to honour Hypatia.
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Tommy_Paine
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posted 17 October 2002 10:30 PM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hypatia

This source doesn't say it, but Hypatia is recognized in other sources as "the last librarian of Alexandria."

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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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