Randomness
Jan. 17th, 2008 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantHere's something interesting I learned. The opposite of 'liberal arts,' according to Plato? 'Servile arts.' In other words, 'liberal arts' = what Plato thought were appropriate subjects for study by free people men.
Something else interesting I learned. You know the Library of Alexandria? Did you ever wonder how they got their collection in the first place? Here's what the New Yorker has to say about it in a story about Google Book Search from last November:
Librarians, imagine this! Every car that comes into your town gets stopped at a checkpoint and searched for books, and if the library doesn't have them, it just takes them.
[sigh] Somebody tell me to either get to work on the novel, or get to work on the Rodney genderswap, or, like, go work on one of my January chores like cleaning out the filing cabinet or something.
Something else interesting I learned. You know the Library of Alexandria? Did you ever wonder how they got their collection in the first place? Here's what the New Yorker has to say about it in a story about Google Book Search from last November:
When ships docked in Alexandria, any scrolls found on them were confiscated and taken to the library. The staff made copies for the owners and stored the originals in heaps, until they could be catalogued.
Librarians, imagine this! Every car that comes into your town gets stopped at a checkpoint and searched for books, and if the library doesn't have them, it just takes them.
[sigh] Somebody tell me to either get to work on the novel, or get to work on the Rodney genderswap, or, like, go work on one of my January chores like cleaning out the filing cabinet or something.