The Library of Babel | 
“The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written...We walk the corridors, searching the shelves & rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony & incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts & collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.” #league #QuotsyFeb20
Popped into Libreria today & forgot how beautiful this store is. It looks quite unassuming on the outside, but the inside it‘s a homage to the Library of Babel. The walls & ceilings are mirrored to give you a sense of books to infinity! They arrange their books in broad themes ie: Power, The City etc & mix all different genres in together...so it‘s a cool way to find something new (but a hard system if you‘re looking for something specific!).
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges
I‘m just going to put this library in Tianjin, China riiiight here.
You‘re welcome!
#librarylove
Today‘s #riotgrams prompt is “Book and library card” - I have three library cards (technically, four, if you count my staff ID to check out stuff from the university library) so this is my card for Iowa City Public Library (holla!) with Borges‘s masterwork, The Library of Babel. @bookriot
