Open book-shelves :: end of a draught :: 2024/ 25
They are in every town and city, even small villages have them - open book shelves. Places where you can put books into and/ or get books from, 7 days a week 24 hours a day.
Last spring I went to the shelf in the quarter where I live.There was not much interesting to find, almost like „eat pray love“ books for conservative housewives, sadly - like every bookshelf - reflecting the „spirit“ of the place, just like it was here after the invasion of the mainstream world.
There was an older woman there, obviously one of the older (but not „old“) ones here. She told me that the shelf was good once. It had been the first in town, built by artists as a place of exchanging books away from commercial interests, and that valie export* contributed to the design. She said that lots of really interesting and rare books could be found here (as most people around were artists who of course read really wild stuff). That sounded like the place i knew, my favorite place to be ! Indeed we have all these great pioneer projects here, and the most free-minded places. Wherever you scratch on, you´ll find freedom and creativity :: a quarter as a teacher ::
A few months later every single day the most interesting books could be found in that book shelf, from 90s classics like ,the beach“ or „smilla´s sense of snow“ (both in several languages), american 2020s writers, art philosophy of the 21st century in modern greek language, all kinds of good french and english literature from early 20th century, and endlessly more :: end of a draught :: 2025 ::
