A short documentary film introducing the daily work flow of the National Library of France (now the old library) is very characteristic of Alan Reynolds. Many years later, in a black-and-white short film about the National Library, I saw the news spread quickly from the reading room to the library along what might be called the nervous system of the library through a pneumatic postal device. This reminds me that scholars, along with all the equipment in the library, form an extremely complex and constantly evolving organism that needs countless words as nourishment, which in turn creates more of its own words. I think I have only seen this movie once, but it has become more absurd and wonderful in my imagination, called memories of the World, by Allen. Made by Ray Nai. Diao Chengjun's translation of Sebard's Austerlitz
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