[Nateman]

Will the classics remain? The Library in Alexandria had plenty of classics. Now they are gone. The Destruction of Libraries by forces that don't like what is inside is a reoccurring theme through history.

[Verginius Rufus]

Most of what we have of Greek and Roman literature is that which was considered the best by the Greeks and Romans--for example, we have the seven plays of Sophocles which were considered his best plays. Not that everything good survived--the books of Livy which survived were not necessarily better than the books of Livy which did not survive.

The loss of the library of Alexandria is greatly to be lamented. But in the last 150 years bits and pieces of lost Greek literature have been recovered on papyrus and even though those papyri were not found in Alexandria, the copies found elsewhere in Egypt may have been copied from an exemplar at the library of Alexandria.

[Elsie]

"Henry Bemis, a bookish little man with thick horn-rimmed glasses wants only one thing out of life; the time to read. Reading is his only passion in an otherwise mundane existence...yet, it's almost an impossibility due to a shrewish wife who deems reading silly...a boss at the bank who's interested in efficiency not education...and the unrelenting hands of the clock. Now all that is about to change. As he does everyday, Bemis sneaks down to the vault to read during his lunch hour, but today when he emerges from his private sanctuary, he will enter a new world. A world that might or might not fulfill his life-long dream."

 

 

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