Sarah Monette’s librarian in the just-published story “A Light in Troy” is very much worth a look. (Pay close attention to the title.)
“The world is different in darkness,” he says—and this is a true thing, and an important one to remember in these times, and one that librarians are especially well-suited to impart.
Go. Read; it’s not long. Remember.
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He querido más vivir en mi pequeña casa, exenta y señora, que no en sus ricos palacios, sojuzgada y cativa.
—Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina
(I prefer living in my little house, free and my own mistress, to living in their rich palaces, downtrodden and wretched.)
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