It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at leas — Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
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