Quoted by Fiona MacCarthy:
A great library is like a coral reef whose exquisite structure as it grows proliferates a living network of connectedness, and its ramification is all of a piece, like knowledge itself — the knowledge that bridges the endless curiosity of the human mind, from the first pictogram to the latest microchip.
(That coral reef thing again.) (Libraries and conversation! Michael Oakeshott!)
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