Dead City Library

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Wed May 5 11:23:12 CDT 2004


"Welcome. I just wanted to tell you briefly what this
site is about. I have always been fascinated by the
idea of weird and somewhat inaccessible libraries full
of books filled with marginalized or forgotten
knowledge: the forbidden books supposedly hidden away
in the bowels of the Vatican, the 'Enfer' of the
Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, fictional libraries
like the book collection of Roderick Usher or the vast
underground archive in the Australian desert used by
giant crustaceans, described in Lovecraft´s 'Shadow
Out of Time'. However, since no crustacean ever showed
up at my bedside to give me a library card, I have
decided to start my own collection of weird texts as a
compensation, for my own pleasure and hopefully yours.
I have divided it into three parts ...."

http://www.userpage.fu-berlin.de/~quirrrrl/INTRO.html

Found this @ ...

http://www.themodernword.com/external.html

http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm

Thanks once again, O Mighty Quail ...


	
		
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