The society believes that a library is always useless, in the sense that it doesn’t deal with everydayness. What constitutes the daily routine, is where you find the toilet, where the kitchen is, or the bedroom.
They are even some houses which do not have a library, but to find a house without a kitchen is quite difficult.
Therefore the library, in regards to everydayness, is initially a meaningless space, because it belongs to the timeless element of Humanity.
There are condensed books there, writings, those that allow us to say that we are not merely ephemeral animals, but that we are ephemeral.
So, because we comprehend that bare fact, we do everything we can to produce work that will remain on.
That is the books.
It is the indication that some managed to leave a mark behind, which passed on through the centuries.
Therefore, when we read books which were written centuries ago, it is always important to understand that in fact they were written for the unborn.
Because, that’s how we were then.
So, the contact with the author is a bridge. A human bridge that is not related at all with anything social.
We had no contact with him, we were not close to him, we were not in his neighbourhood, but nevertheless, we feel that at the time he writes and speaks for us as well and we are together.