The Soul of a Library

Clear and sweet and savory emotion did not run in a rippling stream in my personal world- more pity to it! But in stories and poems I found passion unfettered, and healthy.

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Additional Voices-
Simone de Rochefort:   / doomquasar  
Zac Frazier:   / zc_frzr  

99% Invisible- Weeding is Fundamental: https://99percentinvisible.org/episod...
Library of Congress Info: https://www.loc.gov/about/general-inf...
The Macabre of Bookbinding: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: https://bookbindersmuseum.org/the-mac...
The Torching of the Digital Library of Alexandria: https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...
The Library of Babel 3D by Keiwan- https://keiwan.itch.io/library-of-bab...
The Library: An Illustrated History- Stuart Murray (2009)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts- Joshua Hammer (2017)
The Library of Babel- Jorge Luis Borges (1941)
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders- Stuart Kells (2017)

Video credits:
IBJA- Abdel Kader Haidara:    • Abdel Kader Haidara  
CAD5150- Big Hat Logan:    • Big Hat Logan Questline Dark Souls 1 ...  
FightinCowboy- Dark Souls Walkthrough:    • Dark Souls Remastered - Walkthrough P...  
Werner de Klerk- Bamako Niger River:    • Bamako Niger River  
The ancient manuscripts at the "Ahmed Baba Institute:"    • Timbuctu - The ancient manuscripts at...  
Lost Libraries of Timbuktu- BBC:    • Lost Libraries Of Timbuktu Part 1  

All geographical footage from Google Earth

Thumbnail Credit: HotCyder-    / hotcyder  
Additional Footage: Jesse Guarascia

Footage Used: Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Library of Babel 3D, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Assassin's Creed: Origins

Music Used: Bayonetta (The Angels Descend, God’s Hymns,), Bioshock (Cohen’s Masterpiece), Bloodborne (Micolash, Nightmare Host), Chrono Cross (Another Voyage), Dark Souls (Daughters of Chaos), Disco Elysium (Evrart), Firewatch (Camp Approach), Gris (Karasu, In Your Hands), Nier Automata (Pascal (Instrumental), Voice of No Return), Octopath Traveler (On a Knife’s Edge), To the Moon (For River- Johnny’s Version)

Description Credit: Mary Oliver- Staying Alive