Medieval Book Curse
Steal not this book my honest friend For fear the gallows should be your end, And when you die the Lord will say And where's the book you stole away?
Memes tagged “libraries”
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Shadow Libraries and the Conflict Between Preservation and Curation
All this to say that although barriers to acquisition are low, the barriers to active participation are high and continually increase with time. The absorption of smaller collections by larger favors the veterans. Rules and regulations grow in complexity with the maturation of the community, further widening the rift…
Revolutions That Break with the Past Fail
Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision. Thus the French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the…