To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself... Anybody can have ideas, the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. -- Mark Twain
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Travesty
This is the new library in the city of Dalian in China:
The architecture is dazzling, but this is not a proper library. Compare and contrast to the "Long Room" at Trinity College Library. This is a proper library:
Agreed!
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