It is quite possible that I may just be an overly sensitive person, but the following post is not recommended for young viewers, as it may cause crying, gasping, weeping, and other sad tendencies.
As I stated in my last post, I was reading The Dentist of Auschwitz which, as you all know, is about one of the most tragic events in history, The Holocaust. During World War II, the Germans rounded up as many Jewish people they could find, put them to hard labor, and more often than not systematically killed them. More than 6 million people were killed during this time. But why do you ask, am I bringing this matter up?
Well, I am comparing the Holocaust to what they are currently doing to the library. It seems as though many of the periodicals downstairs are rarely read, and therefore do not deserve to loiter the shelves of our basement. Therefore, and I will say this in the most graphic way possible, the books are yanked off the shelves, thrown onto a cart with all of the other periodicals that no longer have a home, then shoved into the elevator, wheeled like cattle to the strategically placed dumpster in the loading dock, and tossed without a second thought.
P.S. Its a recycling dumpster.
It is quite sad in my opinion, even though no one is reading them. In fact, anytime books are tossed, even if they are recycled, I feel a tickle in my throat. All of that knowledge, in the trash. All of the wasted time, effort, schooling, parental raising that it took to create that author and for the author to create that book, is just down the drain.
But alas, not all is sad when it comes to books. Just as old people die, young people are born. Everyday, new books are brought into the University of Portland Library world, to be put on display as their funky fresh selves for all to see. They have shiny new covers, clean and crisp white pages, and they smell new. It is divine. And it makes me smile, just as a new mother smiles at the beloved miracle she holds in her hands.
Signing off
Madison Delaney Blake
So what are they going to do with all those empty shelves? If they remove them, what's going to go in all that extra space?
ReplyDeletethat knowledge is still archived somewhere on earth.
ReplyDeletealso, babies are not miracles. they are poop machines. cute poop machines.