Dead City Library
joeallonby
vze422fs at verizon.net
Mon May 10 01:15:22 CDT 2004
on 5/5/04 12:23 PM, Dave Monroe at monropolitan at yahoo.com wrote:
> "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
> Biblioth?que 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
>
Nice graphics and all, but it just keeps putting me on a continuous loop.
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