Library pr0n

[sabotabby]

zingerella: So, library porn.
sabotabby: That's really hot.

sabotabby mutters some comment about shagging in Robarts.


Robarts Library, a.k.a. Fort Book.

zingerella looks faintly nauseated.

sabotabby: I just heard it was a good place to pick up. [Sullenly] I wouldn't know. They never let me on the good floors.
zingerella: It's more like the setting for a BDSM porn. It's got cages, shit lighting...
sabotabby: Oppressive concrete...
zingerella: Can't you just see some dominatrix stalking through the stacks, forcing chinless grad students to read Kant?
sabotabby: You realize if I just post the words "Kant" and "porn" in my LJ I'll get about a million comments, don't you?
zingerella: There's just something about sex in a building that looks like a giant turkey. [Pause.] And I don't even like porn.

[Pause.]

sabotabby: Well, neither do I!

Comments

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

The photographs of those librarys were simply astonishing. I used to work in an old library---not nearly as old as any in those pictures, but 100 years old or so, which to me, as a teenager, seemed very old---with huge oak book cases, big wooden tables, an oak front desk, etc., and it felt like a real library to me. When the county system took over, and expanded, it became just another overly-bright, earth-tone painted of every other contemporary library, and I never went back.

[sabotabby]

Why would they do that to a perfectly good library?!

I grew up in a library, actually. It was one of those 60s or 70s, ugly, smelly buildings. It was eventually re-located to one of the overly-bright ones, which was sort of an improvement.

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

When the county took over, a great deal more money was available, and it was decided the library needed to be expanded and updated. Of course, that meant gutting the old building, adding two new walls, and entirely new interior. Nothing was left of the library I loved. But, there was much added room for DVDs and computers. Yay!