The Library at Night
Cosmos and history, metaphor and memory,
Emblems of mind on paper.
The origins of knowledge and imagination;
The signal and the noise.
Simple in means, rich in ends.
Forever old, forever new: This fleeting world.
With gratitude to the authors of the books: Alberto Manguel, Mircea Eliade, Cynthia Ozick, Edward Rothstein, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Jacob Bronowski, Nate Silver, Bill Devall, Emily Kimbrough, and David Christian.
I’ve been thinking about this one since Leanne Ogasawara mentioned Alberto Manguel’s book in her essay The Perfect Library.
