I came.

/awkward cause I'm at work

Veni.

Bonk chicka bonk

[SHHHHH!]

Sorry.

Bonk chicka bonk bonk

They forgot one



Yes, that is someones private library and yes that is a real Sputnik satellite. Walker Library (new window)

Beerguy: They forgot one

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Yes, that is someones private library and yes that is a real Sputnik satellite. Walker Library (new window)

That's amazing. That'd be a great place to chill after an apocalypse.

Yay! Library porn!



/*drops spectacles*

I like the one with all the brown wood.

At first glance I thought it said "librarian porn". As in hot librarians, which are like kryptonite to me. And then I was mildly disappointed.

That's not my kind of library porn. Fancy bookshelves never did anything.

For pure book lust, read The Swerve.

/Can a single book really change the world?

There are plenty of candidates, including Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things," and W.W. Norton has reissued Frank O. Copley's translation of this wondrous poem to coincide with Stephen Greenblatt's "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," an equally wondrous book about how this classic was nearly lost and why Western civilization would be much poorer if that had happened.

I'm going to leave this tab open because I'm curious which direction this thread will eventually take.

Yes, please!

I've been to University of Washington's Suzzallo LIbrary.

Pictures doesn't do it justice!

There's statues that melds with the building. I was going to use carved but I think that implies something was cut away. It's not a relief but more of a statues that becomes the building.

The glass windows had a definite cathedral feel to it and the doorways has a elegant arch to it.

The stairways that goes up to the library, dang, it goes around 4 huge columns.

CrispFlows: I've been to University of Washington's Suzzallo LIbrary.

Pictures doesn't do it justice!

There's statues that melds with the building. I was going to use carved but I think that implies something was cut away. It's not a relief but more of a statues that becomes the building.


You're correct; the statues are terra cotta sculptures of great thinkers and artists.

/went to grad school at UW. Spent a lot of time at Suzzallo. Beautiful building.

Gunny Highway: The library I work at isnt quiet

Freudian slip?

ahumrmllllrmarguhammmmannn ahhhhh h h .

as one with more books in boxes than on shelves... I would love a library 1/1000 as brilliant as any of these.

/ although, I also love just plain old stacks, like a university library with every book imaginable... and forbidden sections that you need to apply for.

Every plan I've ever had for a dream house has started with a library.

I'll check every single book and STILL not find a farking copy of Song of the Alchemists. Jesus.

Can you imagine the HERPA DERPA meltdown that would occur if someone tried to build as something as grand as the UW library or the Iowa State Law Library on the taxpayers' dime today?

Parthenogenetic: WTF is wrong with you people?

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I don't care for plastic tits. Ok?

SpaceBison: Beerguy: They forgot one

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Yes, that is someones private library and yes that is a real Sputnik satellite. Walker Library (new window)

That's funny, I would have thought the real Sputnik satellite would have burned up in the atmosphere after falling out of orbit.

That's funny I would have thought you were smart enough to click on the link I provided and read the article to confirm that as I proclaimed, it is A Sputnik, not THE Sputnik.