The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66876 Message #1113303
Posted By: Rapparee
10-Feb-04 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat, Please organise these threads!
Subject: RE: Mudcat, Please organise these threads!
Just to bring this to a higher place:
In "Daniel", one of Martin Buber's earliest works, he discusses the relationship of man and world. The suggestion is to embrace the whirlpool nature of the world, not to structure it out of existence. Libraries are living cemeteries, you know -- we have the thoughts of people frozen in a matrix of organized information, and yet -- those are the past. True, those who are dead aren't adding to their opus, but those who are living change from day to day. We exist solely so that the future doesn't have to make the mistakes of the past, and we do our best to organize, not impose structure.
That's one of many reasons why libraries are very, very cool.