Comments on A wayfarer’s notes: Accompaniment

Kathleen, your phrase "When I became wealthy enoug...

2008-06-18T12:55:00.000+01:00

Kathleen, your phrase "When I became wealthy enough to buy any book I wanted to have" influenced me subconsciously to title my latest post "Downsized".

Your being a ten-year-old library terror sounds like Roald Dahl's Matilda, but I'm sure your parents were not like hers.

It's clear that children are not so much "influenced" by books (believing everything they say) as provoked

When did I cease going to libraries? When I became...

2008-06-17T20:46:00.000+01:00

When did I cease going to libraries?

When I became wealthy enough to buy any book I wanted to have. But this excludes me from many books which I don't know that I want, for i could not reach that conclusion without reading them.

Libraries were utterly essential to me from the age of 9 to somewhere in my late 30s when I found myself in the fortunate position of being able to buy

When I say "I’d be happy for my local library to b...

2008-06-17T08:32:00.000+01:00

When I say "I’d be happy for my local library to burn down" I hope this doesn't fall foul of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, in the sense that it implies encouragement to commit a terrorist act!

I haven't specified which library it is. King Henry II said in the hearing of his knights: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" and then they went and murdered Thomas à Becket in

Funnily enough, last night I watched the film No C...

2008-06-17T08:27:00.000+01:00

Funnily enough, last night I watched the film No Country for Old Men which as you may know, is a violent evocation of life today in West Texas, through the imagination of a novelist and the film directors the Coen brothers.

It was hard for me not to see it in childlike way as reflective of the reality in USA today. Perhaps it is, perhaps it's not, but I don't have the perspective

Librarian Pete, I would warn you Europeans, you Br...

2008-06-17T07:14:00.000+01:00

Librarian Pete, I would warn you Europeans, you British in Particular, not to become in the FASHION of the USA and follow it into the gutter of worthlessness in your intelligence, you, you having been the leaders for so long, in intelligence, don't NOW follow blindly this false mentality that is proferred up as the means of success by cowboys and rough riders of plains so low as to be deep into

Thanks for the further comments, Davo & Jim. I sup...

2008-06-17T06:28:00.000+01:00

Thanks for the further comments, Davo & Jim.

I suppose I feel that the rule of the majority doesn't work when the majority have been manipulated and deceived I don't care if I am in a minority of one. In earlier life, I found refuge in libraries because I found that it was possible to find kindred souls there, even though they were long dead and came from (say) China or India. Within

Dear Librarian Pete, you have every right to come ...

2008-06-17T06:10:00.000+01:00

Dear Librarian Pete, you have every right to come here with all guns blazing , after I have (still enraged) left a comment on the "Good Library Blog" which includes the remark "The way our local library is going I would happily see it burnt down without waiting for it to close voluntarily." I welcome your spirited response.

I am shocked that any of my remarks would befit a letter in the

I certainly hope that this discussion or comment s...

2008-06-17T03:58:00.000+01:00

I certainly hope that this discussion or comment section does not deteriorate too much.

Doubt very much that Vincent is "ill informed and ludicrous.

Sources of information ARE everywhere - to those who have need to search for it, but as an older person tend to agree with Vincent. May well be generalising, but have the tendency to feel that some "uncomfortable"

I guess I can't speak for any other country, as to...

2008-06-17T00:43:00.000+01:00

I guess I can't speak for any other country, as to Librarians and what they want and what they think and what they do, but here, in the USA, we have had a procession of dumbing down elementals thruout our society, libraries included, and the servants of this dumbing down control these venues of public influence and do control to a large, very large, extent who sits on ANY city council or school

"these librarians don't want that! They think they...

2008-06-16T23:52:00.000+01:00

"these librarians don't want that! They think they are priests to define truth, or agents of the Government Ministry of Propaganda"

A shred of evidence to back up this ill informed comment, which would befit a letter published in the Daily Mail, would of course be welcome.

In addition, if you don't like what your council have done, then why don't you stand for election to it?

Ghetu, I don't think of it as willpower, in fact I...

2008-06-15T17:14:00.000+01:00

Ghetu, I don't think of it as willpower, in fact I see myself as passive to the forces that move me. But I know others would call it the will.

BBC: Too ordinary for me to write about, and for m...

2008-06-15T17:13:00.000+01:00

BBC: Too ordinary for me to write about, and for my readers. Don't get me wrong, I love to read about yours and see the pics.

I can't really showcase my projects because they a...

2008-06-14T13:29:00.000+01:00

I can't really showcase my projects because they are too ordinary,

To ordinary for who Vincent?

BTW, I work with wood at times also.
I make I MAKE THESE

it suddenly reminded me that you are a pretty 'sel...

2008-06-14T13:25:00.000+01:00

it suddenly reminded me that you are a pretty 'self-healed' man. you must have a tremondous willpower.

Well, Scot, I wonder if something has changed worl...

2008-06-13T11:49:00.000+01:00

Well, Scot, I wonder if something has changed world wide on the library business to screw them up in parallel, in different countries at the same time!

Beth, thanks for those pictures of beautiful libra...

2008-06-13T11:48:00.000+01:00

Beth, thanks for those pictures of beautiful libraries. I am going to write more on this!

Jim, I was interested to read of your librarian da...

2008-06-13T11:47:00.000+01:00

Jim, I was interested to read of your librarian days, and I agree with you that deprivation of its facilities is nothing to regret. I shall write further on libraries. they used to be better! They were something in life taken for granted. Then you appreciate the past when it's taken away.

BBC, I like your rants too. I wasn't getting them ...

2008-06-13T11:45:00.000+01:00

BBC, I like your rants too. I wasn't getting them any more then I adjusted my set to receive them, now that you've moved to another frequency.

Davo, that is precisely it. The value of a library...

2008-06-13T11:44:00.000+01:00

Davo, that is precisely it. The value of a library is to see through many eyes, especially the eyes of people in the past; for then we are in a better position to judge the follies of the present.

But these librarians don't want that! They think they are priests to define truth, or agents of the Government Ministry of Propaganda.

Yes, Eric Berne & parent, adult, child. Valuable

Tim, I don't know what society is focused on. You ...

2008-06-13T11:08:00.000+01:00

Tim, I don't know what society is focused on. You may be right, but I assume everyone to be like me, and to look through their own eyes and not through some common eyes of society. Making such an assumption, I naturally ignore everything that contradicts that assumption!

Ghetufool, it all starts and ends with "I", but th...

2008-06-13T11:05:00.000+01:00

Ghetufool, it all starts and ends with "I", but the sickness is not to know the full extent of what the "I" holds. There is some Indian story about the man whose house is built on a treasure of gold. He doesn't know what is under the ground.

Davo, it is a very curious conundrum, and fortunat...

2008-06-13T11:03:00.000+01:00

Davo, it is a very curious conundrum, and fortunate are those, in my opinion, who have not been blessed with knowledge of the Holy Scriptures or equivalents. Less to get confused about.

and there is always that curious conundrum "love t...

2008-06-13T02:27:00.000+01:00

and there is always that curious conundrum "love thy neighbour as thyself". If one cannot love, respect, and be gentle with oneself .. then i pity the poor neighbour .. heh.

there is absolutely nothing wrong in I. only if we...

2008-06-12T20:09:00.000+01:00

there is absolutely nothing wrong in I. only if we tried to respect the I, the world would have been a better place.

if you cannot love 'I' how can you love 'U'?

without 'I', who?

2008-06-12T20:07:00.000+01:00

without 'I', who?