One of the benefits I am experiencing from the Chinavirus hysteria is the closing of the libraries. The library is one of my big hang outs. If allowed, I will go at least once a week. When they closed down they had it set up so you could check out books on-line and pick them up curb side. That has been cancelled also. The website tells me that the employees are still working remotely and are available to answer my questions. My only question would be why are they still getting paid when all the small businesses are being forced to go bankrupt. Could it have anything to do with most librarians being Democrats?
But I digress.
The benefit of closing the libraries is that it is forcing me to look at all the books on my shelves that I have been intending to read someday. Someday has arrived and I cannot put it off any longer. So far I have finished two histories of World War II by Stephen Ambrose, Slouching toward Gomorrah by Robert Bork, a book on theology, and a book on Islam by Bernard Lewis. To show the depths of desperation I am now working through some philosophy by David Hume.
I keep hoping the nonsense will cease and we can get back to not work. If not, I still have several shelf feet of books to read.
homo unius libri
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