Rebecca Solnit on San Francisco

[David Payne]

I love libraries, and that's an awe-inspiring example.

But their red room ... I can only assume "they" meant for people to feel wigged out on that floor; it's seriously stress inducing -- and what a contrast to the towering cathedral-esque ground level and the graceful floor above the red-room level (if I remember the order of floors correctly): 

https://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+library+red+room&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHKZ_enUS434US434&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=UXg1UauCB4GO2gWCz4GoBQ&ved=0CFgQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=979

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> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 22:10:57 -0600 
> Subject: Rebecca Solnit on San Francisco 
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> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org 
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