The sound of silence: visiting the library during lockdown

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New Yorkers have rushed to stream a new recording of ambient noise at their central library – a peaceful murmur many readers love

Jorge Luis Borges always imagined paradise “will be a kind of library”. For New Yorkers under lockdown, the sounds of the New York Public Library – rustles, taps, coughs, an echoing voice – are proving to be, if not paradise, then at least some kind of balm.

 

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That's not a Library, that's a Cathedral XD

That room is one of my favorite places on the planet.

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