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
Curator of Collections/Interim Director
Museum of York County
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