In a message dated 2/24/2008 4:57:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com writes:
It's showing express support for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the
spiritual successor to the Library of Alexandria, and all that it
represents.
Is it? Or is it just a big building that happens to be built on the site of
an important intellectual site of two thousand years ago. This article is
telling:
_http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1552769_ITM_
(
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1552769_ITM) , as is this
_http://books.google.com/books?id=yxVNO_oFmWUC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&a…
ca+alexandrina+censorship&source=web&ots=mAuHFVtPeM&sig=CNK55Q9HPInLU3vVDHsmx-
vE1tM#PPA392,M1_
(
http://books.google.com/books?id=yxVNO_oFmWUC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&am…
Q9HPInLU3vVDHsmx-vE1tM#PPA392,M1)
As for spiritual successor, I would imagine that to be the LIbrary of
Congress, the Vatican Library, the Bibliothèque nationale, the Russian State
Library, or perhaps even the Internet itself.
Danny
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