“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Monday (Evening)
We head out for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
The city is full of people.
We stop and point out the architecture.
Shell takes all the pictures and I wonder if the results she would get on a decent camera instead of her iPhone.
Near the library, there is a building called The Iconic. A museum of the retro and the future. Filled with old cars and other memorabilia from the last five decades.
Very cool.
“It’s not a love of the old as such. It’s simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment – or arouses a necessary sympathy.”
Susan Sontag
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has been recently renovated. A lazy 16 million euros.
It is money well spent. The building is a magnificent piece of architecture.
We spend some time taking pictures of the outside before heading in. The collection of books is extraordinary. Some ancient works dating back to the 1600s.
Entry is a 30 minute visitor pass but you could stay for hours.
Home.
Bed.
Tomorrow the museums.
One day I will live in this city.
“The city exists and it has a simple secret: it knows only departures, not returns.”
Italo Calvino
Fantastic pics. Don’t wait too long to live there – I need to visit you🤣🤣
It is always a fluid plan when Shell is involved…