The picture I put in yesterday’s blog is not in fact of the
destruction by the Germans of Leuven library in 1914. It is in fact of the
destruction (by the Germans) of Holland House library in London, some time in
the 1940s. It also shows the typical phlegmatic English reaction to such
events.
I am not sure whether the following sign, seen at Swansea
University, shows a wish to protect literature or simply contempt for it:
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