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eachdraidh2014-10-14 07:53 pm
athousandcurses) wrote in eachdraidh2014-10-14 07:53 pm
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Why... why would anyone do something like this?
[Someone has just found out about the library after returning to Caer Glaem, and judging from the stricken, teary state of her face and hushed voice, Grainne is pretty broken up about the attack. She honestly cannot understand why anyone would deliberately set fire to history.]
Why would you try to destroy something so valuable?
[She shakes her head. How could someone take something like books for granted, even so far as to burn them?]
So many things are lost to the ages that we will never retrieve, never regain, and that is with verbal history and story telling. We do not have "books" in our culture; over the years people have forgotten the histories we have passed down to our children because our history is only retained in memory. If someone is selfish or does not pass down what they know, it can be lost too easily! For everything that has been lost, we will never again know it!
[Don't mind the heartbroken, she just has Very Strong opinions on this.]
Do you not understand how wonderful such things are? How precious it is? Recording history in this way is almost a miracle! Can't you see why the loss of even one scroll is denying not just everyone living now, but those who come after us?
Why would anyone even attempt it...
[Someone has just found out about the library after returning to Caer Glaem, and judging from the stricken, teary state of her face and hushed voice, Grainne is pretty broken up about the attack. She honestly cannot understand why anyone would deliberately set fire to history.]
Why would you try to destroy something so valuable?
[She shakes her head. How could someone take something like books for granted, even so far as to burn them?]
So many things are lost to the ages that we will never retrieve, never regain, and that is with verbal history and story telling. We do not have "books" in our culture; over the years people have forgotten the histories we have passed down to our children because our history is only retained in memory. If someone is selfish or does not pass down what they know, it can be lost too easily! For everything that has been lost, we will never again know it!
[Don't mind the heartbroken, she just has Very Strong opinions on this.]
Do you not understand how wonderful such things are? How precious it is? Recording history in this way is almost a miracle! Can't you see why the loss of even one scroll is denying not just everyone living now, but those who come after us?
Why would anyone even attempt it...
Permatext for him
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Catalog...
Printing...
Publishers...
And I am unsure what materials mean in this context.
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1. Catalog - a list of books that a library has, so they can keep track of what they do and don't have.
2. Printing - books aren't always written by hand, some are printed with the use of little metal letters you arrange in the right order, roll ink on, and press the ink to the book page.
3. Publishers - people who print books
4. Materials - catch all for books/printed items (so, maps and the like too.)
Rephrase of the whole thing - ask the librarians for a list of what got destroyed. See if any of the books are still being made now, which means you need to contact the people making them (the printers.)
Better?
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Yes, that helps a great deal. I might need to investigate printing more to fully understand, but it helps.
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