Stuck Between Two Impossible Libraries

Michael Berger bio ↓ · April 8th, 2010 · filed under books

“Every librarian, every book collector, finds him or herself between these two mythical places—the Perfect Library of God and the Infinite Library of Babel, the one transcribed by Jerome, the other by Borges.”

At Lapham’s Quarterly, a beautiful meditation on libraries, God, St. Jerome and Borges — and at the same a pithy diagnosis of the theological urgency many book lovers like myself feel at the site or mere suggestion of unread, unprocured and unknown books.

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Michael Berger is a San Francisco-based writer, blogger and fiction editor for www.splintergeneration.com. A former civil rights law clerk, he now works at a bookstore, volunteers at Alemany Farm and is working on various unfinished novels about love and the apocalypse. More from this author →

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