THE CITY 'OF BOOKS That way you imagine a city full of books that sprout from every nook and sewer. In reality this is not so because it is not just in cities. Archer City is an intersection of two roads which run along the few buildings that contribute to this intersection in the middle of the desert, a precise location on the map of Texas. And if one is better informed, finds that this dot hosts the largest library of used books in the United States and was founded by a man who is born there and then took off to become one of the highest paid screenwriters in Hollywood: Larri McMurtry (a title for everyone, what has earned him the Oscar: Brokeback Mountain ). From this stems from her curiosity and desire to be in half-hour drive to the Texas plains to get there. And what they discover is a surreal place that really takes the form of these stores or huge, divided into 4 different areas and home to something like 300,000 books. Then call it 'shop' makes little
justice because he was born unbridled love for the object book and not by the desire to make a profit through the sale of books. Indeed, prices are far from cheap, particularly given the second hand (if not the twentieth!). As if it was important to sell but have accumulated over decades, mountains of books and already this has become an end. In fact, I have to say that there is a feeling of not wanting to buy for fear of removing something to this paper sculpture. Then I thought, "Maybe this is not one of the reasons that gave birth to the cathedral of books: let every traveler carries with it a piece of this dream." So I have three pieces here with me ... Below pictures taken there. A copy of the leaflet spread the news of the death sentences of Sacco and Vanzetti, and urged the workers to struggle. The Portrait of Larry with his son. The edition of 'Naked Lunch' by W. Burroughs in the series pornographic 'Traveller's Companion'.
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