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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

With that sign in the doorway, is one allowed to wear a mask or, heaven forbid, a burka in those hallowed halls?

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I saw no masks nor hijab -- wonder what happens if you try it!

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Wear a Steve Jobs mask!

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Obligatory JFK quote: “A city of southern efficiency and northern charm.”

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Carnegie’s libraries were the one good thing about him. But as fewer and fewer people read books, I wonder how a library becomes overcrowded. I worry they’ll cease to exist except as warming dens for the homeless. Just another boomer memory: rainy weekends at the library reading through the collections of English mystery writers (Sayers, Christie, Conan Doyle, Rey).

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

A certain city in the American South still has two Carnegie Libraries--one for whites and one for blacks, fifty-plus years after desegregation. (http://www.liveoakpl.org/home)

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

I just read an article in the WSU Alumni Magazine about the changing role of libraries: https://magazine.wsu.edu/2019/04/28/how-may-we-help-you/

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Growing up, every library and good, small, book-shop was an embassy from My True Home Country.

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

At the Apple Store, I imagine a flash-mob style cajón jam breaking out.

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

Thanks for linking the WSJ article about "nerve deafness." Not being a subscriber, I could only read the first few paragraphs, but at least I now have a name for yet another of my many afflictions. I'm still waiting for science to classify the post-senescent despair I suffer daily, but I think a subscription to the WSJ would only exacerbate it.

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Nerve deafness is just a term I learned for it years ago -- I'm not sure the MDs in the WSJ story call it that.

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May 13, 2019Liked by Roy Edroso

It was not universal, but in 1945-47 a noticeable number of Jewish living heirs to and owners of property in Poland were killed when they returned home to claim to it. The current governing party's Natdek predecessors also did a great job of anti-Semitism when they were trying to gratify their base and attempting to ally with the Nazis, who were having none of it for some reason. (I'm alive because my father saw the police fail to aid an old Jew being beaten by a mob in 1936 or -37 and got out as quickly as possible…I just wish I were energetic and competent enough to get out of here in time.)

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