You may have wondered why there are still libraries when you exist. Some students still lack a room, a table, access to the internet. Many people go there to take out and return books. What does everyone else want in a library they don't need? Simultaneity. The murmur of pages, keyboards, lungs, and pens. Listening to the sound of minds reading: footsteps on grass. Watching beams of light. Partaking, from where they sit, in silent and no longer completely individual storms. I hear, a poet once said, the dream of old friends. [...]