During the day, the library is a realm of order.
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
