A couple of days ago I visited the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
What an amazing and immense building! You’ll see it’s composed of four great L-shaped towers, one at each corner of a garden space and all connected by long corridors. I went when the library opened at 10 in the morning and the queues of readers were already huge. By the time I was leaving every single reading room was full and there were individual queues of people waiting for spaces in each and every one of them. Very impressive!
Good gracious, Dr. Bob. When I was a little boy, mama used to take me to our library down by the mill. I got to check out five books every week. I would read them all, then get five more the following week. Read everything in the place. I am a fast reader, but I don’t believe I could get through all the ones in the Bibliotheque. Very impressive indeed!
Hey, with all that room in there, maybe they’ll take in a token Dr. Bibey book in a couple years- there is bound to be some space!
Dr. Bibey
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When I was a kid I’d go to the local library every week too. Our library was like yours – you could take out 5 books at a time and, like you, I always did. One week I could only find four library books to return and I always took out five but try as I might I couldn’t even think of the title of the missing fifth book. Hunted high and low, couldn’t find it. I explained the problem to the librarian and she helpfully said she could look up the records and find out what the fifth book was so I would at least know what I was looking for. She came back with a big grin on her face and said “You haven’t read it yet have you?” “No, I agreed. What’s it called?”
“How to Improve your Memory” she said!!!!
Nice shots. The last one has a really cool effect…the escalator almost looks invisible or transparent because of the reflection.
-Rich
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thanks Rich
I love your photos – you take them from such amazing perspectives
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