So last night I headed over to the library to do some research on witch hunts in early modern England. I got a little research done, but mostly the library distracted me. That place is worse than youtube. I started out looking at historical studies of witch hunts, saw a book called Whores of the Devil, which I just had to flip through, then a few books later found myself browsing a 150 year old book about L'Occulte. The book was in French, but it was super cool anyway. Over an hour later I was sitting on the floor a few shelves over reading Nietzsche. I don't really get Nietzsche. I also flipped through the 1910 archives of the Journal of Parapsychology.
After 90 minutes of book hopping I remembered that I wasn't there to just wander around and actually started studying. I could totally wander around in there for hours.
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How cool! I too adore libraries! I was so jealous when your Mom was the librarian in Branson!
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Oh, the allure of the book! The mysteries, the secrets, the little gems of knowledge, the sacred, the profane, the worlds, and people and cultures and life and death-all just waiting there between the covers!
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