September 2016 Theme Day - Library

Vasconcelos Library labeled by the press as “megalibrary”, is a library in the north area of Mexico City. 

It was dedicated to José Vasconcelos, the philosopher and former presidential candidate and former president of the National Library of Mexico. 

The library is spread across 38,000 square metres (409,000 sq ft). [Wiki]

Alexander Pushkin Park Library

“If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, but always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.”

― Henry Miller, Plexus

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Don Quixote

The Library Rogerio Casas - Alatriste H., houses the collection of books gathered by Franz Mayer, who besides collecting pieces of art, highlighted as bibliophile.

The library specializes in decorative arts and has one of the most important collections in America of The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote.

The relevance of this collection lies, inter alia, in antiquity, beauty and rarity, its editions, true works of art. In these books is remarkable addition to the content, binding, typography, illustrations and illuminated.

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians and bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri May 20, 2016

This week’s challenge:

‘Civilization’.

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