Read 'The Children of Men' by P.D. James and you'll remember why dead
people are so important to us. Without a past there is no future! Why does
this guy work for museums with a cynical attitude like that anyway?

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Mark Nielsen
Exhibit Designer/Preparator
University of Michigan Museum of Art
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On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Janis Wilkens wrote:

> MusmDesign wrote:
> >
> > Libraries and museums are repositories for dead thoughts and images.  Get
> > real!  People want fasterness to satisfy their carnal desires,
> > "Touchy/feely" without exposing themselves to their surroundings both
> > physically and spiritually.  If it ain't tomorrow it's in the past.  A
> > better name for library is probably "Libre ex Morto e Finito".  I know
> > it's longer than the word "library" but Lorenzo de'Medici and his
> > ancestors would find it appropriately poetic, pathetic, and prophetic.
>
>
> You remind me of my brother-in-law, a composer who insists that no-one
> should perform or listen to the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Copland, etc.
> because it's all "dead" music (in fact, I think he thinks music is dead a
> month after it's written).  And I don't agree with either of you!
> --
> Janis Beth Wilkens
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> Museum of York County
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