In a message dated 2/24/2008 4:57:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, stephen.bain@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&... ca+alexandrina+censorship&source=web&ots=mAuHFVtPeM&sig=CNK55Q9HPInLU3vVDHsmx- vE1tM#PPA392,M1_ (http://books.google.com/books?id=yxVNO_oFmWUC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&... 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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