" I see [librarians] as healers and magicians. Librarians can tease out of inarticulate individuals enough information about what they are after to lead them on the path of connection.  They are trail guides through the forest of shelves and aisles -- you turn a person loose who has limited skills, and he'll be walloped by the branches.  But librarians match up readers with the right books. . . . .

If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stries about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous --- and it is." 

"Steinbeck Country" by Anne Lamott, from Grace (Eventually) pp 153- 154; copyright 2007 by Riverhead Books.

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