Brooklyn Magpie

nickholmes:

Tim was relatively numb to the mundane nature of his service. 

nickholmes:

Tim was relatively numb to the mundane nature of his service. 

viscerealist:

Transcript

16 March 1971

Dear Boys and Girls,

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you—-and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.

(Signed, ‘Isaac Asimov’)

Isaac Asimov

(via librarianista)

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one

on top of the other that we always come up against

earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has

been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely

present and alive. — from The Reader by Bernhard Schlink