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Libaries

Libraries are wonderful places to spent a lot of time in, even though not everyone thinks that way.
They are feared and/or loved, especially by students.

Feared because spending time in the library could mean having to study for an approaching exam.
Loved because of all the knowledge that can be found there.
However, they are feared for it as well, seeing as throughout our history there have been several book burnings – be it either fictional like „Fahrenheit 451“ by Ray Bradbury (451F is the temperature at which book pages start to burn) or the real ones during for example the Inquisition.
The knowledge hidden inside books and therefore inside the libraries seems to hold great dangers as well.
Though there are also people who despise libraries, for lack of entertainment and unknowingly disregarding the adventures some of these book covers hold between them.

Nevertheless I enjoy being in libraries. I spent a lot of my spare time in 11th grade (German school system) in our local one. Not the hugest one I’ve in seen so far, but still a quite fascinating one.
In that year I’ve read more books than in the years before and after it.
I should return to read more often instead of lingering on the Internet wasting my time on stupid stuff like writing a Blog …

Guess I’m not the only one with that habit and seeing the ACTA process the governments fear the knowledge to become dangerous as well.
As they cannot burn the Internet they are now trying to shun it away.
History repeats itself?
Seems that way.

Knowledge is something to behold, to protect, not censor.
Especially in libraries you can find a lot of hidden treasures.
Even the movie industry picked this thought up and created a Mini-Series called „The Libarian“ with Noah Wyle about an organization of librarians who are collecting powerful and magical relics, like the the Holy Grail, Noah’s Ark, the Fountain of Youth, Nessie and so forth, treasuring them underneath a library.
In the ending sequence of the episode „The Curse of the Judas Chalice“ we can take a look into the storage room, showing the form of a tree.
It could either be Yggdrasil – the world tree from the Northern mythology or the tree of knowledge.
I guess it’s the latter.

Both things have been portrait by me in entries for writing competitions (Worldtree, Knowledge is Power)
The last one I participated in was about the „Mystical Library“.
And as my story once again wasn’t good enough you can find it here now: Unknown Worlds

All stories are in German therefore a basic knowledge of the language is necessary to understand them.
You could also use Googles translator but I doubt it would translate it correctly as it had „problems“ already with the sentence „Google ist doof“ (Google is stupid) – „he“ translated it to: „Google is not stupid“ 😀
Well, we’ll see about that. 😉

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