Zitat unkommentiert

[Zitat] Unkommentiert – 1984

“Then I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on, murder mysteries, The Good Earth, everything. By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. There were two libraries in Harlem, and by the time I was thirteen I had read every book in both libraries and I had a card downtown for Forty-Second Street… What I had to do then was bring the two things together: the possibilities the books suggested and the impossibilities of the life around me… Dickens meant a lot to me, for example, because there was a rage in Dickens which was also in me… And Uncle Tom’s Cabin meant a lot to me because there was a rage in her which was somehow in me. Something I recognized without knowing what I recognized.” James Baldwin in The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 78 im Interview mit John Elgrably, Issue 91, Spring 1984

Das geheime Bibliotheksappartment der New York Public Library

Das ist eines der letzten geheimen Appartments der New York Public Library. Als die Bibliotheken vor etwa einem Jahrhundert gebaut wurden, benötigte diese Menschen, welche sich um diese kümmern. Jede hatte eine Art Hausmeister, dessen Aufgabe es u.a. war dafür zu sorgen, dass mögliche Brände schnellstmöglich gelöscht wurden. Dieser lebte oft mit seiner Familie in der Bibliothek