Being in the university library always makes me think about being in some kind of cemetery.
These books represent lives.
There are books here that will never be read.
I always feel overwhelmed, especially by the old books that have been abandoned in favor of the nonsense that is so popular here -- like thousands are dying around me and I am powerless to save them.
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What about the "empty" books? Do they still represent lives?
Also: is a book written by a Christian more or less of a "remainder" than that person's body, buried in a cemetery (keeping in mind the promise of resurrection)?
Yeah, I think even the "empty" book represent lives. I imagine that the Christian/non-Christian difference would be something along the lines of the works tested by fire that Paul talks about at the beginning of 1 Corinthians. There's doubtless some gold and silver in those books. And there's also hay and stubble that someone spent his life collecting.
So, no distinction between a person's life and their works?
No, not that at all. Of course there's a distinction. But one is an expression of the other, like the fruit off a tree.
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