Sunday, June 05, 2005

Garrison Keillor and the Librarian

Garrison Keillor told a story today and I'm paraphrasing...a librarian snapped one day because she realized that everything was arranged, day in and day out, by Dewy Decimal number - every day the same thing. So, she started arranging books by color instead. Green books, purple books, red and yellow covers. It was beautiful and people came just to take pictures of the vasty array. They took away the unexpected. The housewife took a book on sailing, the preacher read about NASCAR, and the mechanic read Shakespearean poetry...a crazy, mixed up, wonderful world. How the world did change for each of them.

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