![]() ![]() As the house took shape again, the golden lit flesh reknitting over its beautiful stone bones, this room became a hallowed place, a place of light and shadows, cool in summer, warm in winter. A great collector of books old and new, many on esoteric or obscure subjects, he had had a room set aside from the beginning in the cavernous old place he and my mother had bought when it was not much more than a haunted ruin, for just this purpose. The first library I remember was my father's, in our house deep in the green, wooded countryside of southwestern France. Edited version of an address given at the Alia 2000 conference 23-26 October 2000 As a place of enchantment the actual library, with actual books, will continue to work real and extraordinary magic in the 21st century. ![]() At a time when many people, including unfortunately some librarians, seem determined to misrepresent the literate, it is important to remember that the digitised and electronic library is not going to interest those people who are not readers already. ![]()
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