What’s your fantasy library? Mine involves an old-fashioned library with club chairs, a fireplace and book shelves so high you have to use a ladder to get to them. There’s a dog curled up at my feet and a butler to bring me sherry. The library exists in my imaginary mansion, there’s also a very helpful pool boy…but that’s a different fantasy.
Check out Curious Expeditions’ blog about incredible libraries around the world. There’s no butler and probably no dogs allowed, but they’ll do in a pinch.
Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
Find the link to more amazing libraries here:
http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78
Update: I have figured out how to fix the link. It works, it works!
Update: Okay, now it really works. Goes to the right page and everything.
July 9, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I’ll take the pool boy in the library, please. Many, many times if he’s the pool boy I’m imagining…
July 11, 2008 at 3:10 am
In the 80s our family when skiing in Big Sky, Montana; and one day this anti-social, book-loving teenager shunned the slopes and went to Bozeman, the nearby town, to do some shopping. There was a book store there in an old clapboard church. No pews, no altar, just bookshelves and a fireplace and some leather club chairs. Even the choir loft was full of books. That’s my fantasy library, and the world would probably be a better place if most churches followed suit.
And further, not sure if you know of it, but Alain Renais made a documentary in the 50s about the national library in Paris. The doc is called Toute la mémoire du monde. I’ve never seen it, don’t know where to find a copy, but ask Paul about it. He’s the one who brought it to my attention.