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Martin
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Librarian, educator, occasional creator of things. (Technically) award-winning composer, writer, film-maker, and scholar.
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Well, well, well, @kingsbookstore.bsky.social
A stylish bearded man in a Canadian Tuxedo stands holding a stack of books, an impish smile peaking through his whiskers and a glint of mischief in his eye. It is Paul MacKay, manager or the hardest-to-find bookstore in North America, the King's Co-op Bookstore.
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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There's a case in front of my office that has sat empty for months, so I invited everyone in the library to submit works of art and created a little gallery! I'm rather pleased with it:
A glass case shows various crafts and artworks, including a mixed media project, beading, a knitted blanked, sculptures, felting, a drawing, and a cross-stitch.
February 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Italo Calvino just casually reminding us about modes of information, and the medium is the message and all that
An excerpt from Mr. Palomar, but Italo Calvino. It reads: Mr. Palomar does not arrive at a less generic classification: he is not one of those people who, on hearing a birdcall, can identify the bird it belongs to. This ignorance makes him feel guilty. The new knowledge the human race is acquiring does not compensate for the knowledge spread only by direct oral transmission, which, once lost, cannot be regained or retransmitted: no book can teach what can be learned only in childhood if you lend an alert ear and eye to the song and flight of birds and if you find someone who knows how to give them a specific name. Rather than the cultivation of precise nomenclature and classification, Palomar had preferred the constant pursuit of a precision in defining the modulating, the shifting, the composite. Today he would make the opposite choice, and, following the train of thoughts stirred by the birds' singing, he sees his life as a series of missed opportunities.
November 28, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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A simple poem from William Ransom Wood, but I like it
The poem is titled Count Me, and reads: Count me among The simple folk Who try to make The system work Somehow. Or change it Now and then a bit As needs of others grow.
November 27, 2024 at 1:11 PM