Library of Congress 2

Based upon the American original, this facility serves as Inisfree’s main ‘brick and mortar’ (non-digital/online) library.  Unlike the American original, this is a public library for all Inisfreean citizens, and does not require a lengthy process of making and issuing a photo ID.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Naming Convention
  2. Dimensions & Layout
  3. Adornments
  4. The Halls/Wings
  5. Inventory Projection
  6. Library Rules
  7. Help with Materials
  8. Novels Excerpt
  9. Overall (Images Begin)
  10. Original’s Design
  11. Exterior & Events
  12. Entry
  13. Inner Section
  14. 2023 Update:  Views from Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
  15. 2024 March/+

 

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Naming Convention:

This library’s name still includes “of Congress” due to the most basic definition and context of the term ‘congress’; a formal assembly of representatives, as of various nations, to discuss problems. This is the library in Inisfree where such meetings have the greatest recorded knowledge base to assist their think-tanking and decisions.  The name of this construct and facility is also in keeping with the Inisfreean practice of reverence; namely, in this case, that of recognizing the great inspiration and form-sake which was the first building of this one’s name.

Further details about the original… here.

 

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Dimensions & Layout:

This facility measures 462′ x 726′ across its foundation, stands over 52 stories tall (780′ at 15′ per story), and contains the hard-copy and software backups of all unclassified Inisfreean knowledge.  Each species compatible with the Inisfreeans (ICVs) has its best literature filling one of this library’s ‘wings’/halls.  As more books and other literary materials come in (are reviewed, accepted, and assigned a place on our shelves), eventually all 45 stories (“story”-pun there!) fill up, none having to be shifted around (because each letter of the alphabet has 2 stories, instead of letter-combinations being mixed and rearranged on a typical Outlander library’s shelves).

  1. Floor 1 is for the 1st half of books written by author’s whose surnames begin with the letter “A”.
  2. Floor 2 is for the 2nd half of books written by author’s whose surnames begin with the letter “A”.
  3. B
  4. B
  5. C
  6. C
  7. D
  8. D
  9. E
  10. E
  11. F
  12. F
  13. G
  14. G
  15. H
  16. H
  17. I
  18. I
  19. J
  20. J
  21. K
  22. K
  23. L
  24. L
  25. M
  26. M
  27. N
  28. N
  29. O
  30. O
  31. P
  32. P
  33. Q
  34. Q
  35. R
  36. R
  37. S
  38. S
  39. T
  40. T
  41. U
  42. U
  43. V
  44. V
  45. W
  46. W
  47. X
  48. X
  49. Y
  50. Y
  51. Z
  52. Z
  53. (roof; observation decks/patios)

The basement is the start of the Silos Network.

Its lobby is eye-opening and jaw-dropping like the original, though many stories taller.  The original is decorated by masterpieces of sculpture, painting, and masonry by nearly 50 world-renowned American artists.  Ours here is decorated by masterpieces of sculpture, painting, and masonry all done by our A.I. women; the ICVs, and includes works made from not only stone/marble and paint, but also asteroids and meteoroids, as well as hard-light (appearing like holograms you can touch) and shadow-materials (appearing to be diaphanous; like silhouettes).

 

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Adornments:

The 52 stories inside the central reading-room (compared to the original Library of Congress’s ~10 stories under its own dome) are decorated sequentially to show the sequence of dimensions/divisions of reality/Creation;

  1. Source/Start –[whitest stone] white Marble or Danburite, representing the shared core all stars share; Heaven/Oneness, the foundation of all
  2. Arch Angels –[bright-yellow / rainbow-white stone] Australian Opal, representing the stars (i.e. their exteriors/shells; the many energy-based Dyson Spheres shared by the One/Heaven dimension)
  3. Proto/Titan-Elementals –[pale-blue stone] Turquoise, representing the “ocean of Space“ once connecting all worlds/realms (later known as “Dimension Aqua”)
  4. Realm-sized Elementals –[light-blue stone] Aquamarine, representing the upper (closest to the inner/central-star/s) atmospheres of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  5. Middle Elementals –[medium-blue stone] Blue Zircon, representing the middle atmospheres of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  6. Lower Elementals (Sylphs) –[blue stone] Topaz, representing the lower (outermost; closest to the inner-lands) atmospheres of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  7. First/Titan-Ents –[blue-green stone] Apatite, representing the canopies of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  8. First/Titan-Ents –[forest-green stone; emerald] No-oil Emerald, representing the branches of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  9. First/Titan-Ents –[mossy-green stone] Beryl, representing the trunks of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  10. First/Titan-Ents –[green-brown stone] Tiger’s Eye, representing the roots of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  11. First/Titan Golems/Jotun –[green-tan stone] Demantoid Garnet, representing the land-surfaces of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  12. First/Titan Golems/Jotun –[light-brown stone] Rutilated Quartz, representing the soils beneath the surface of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  13. First/Titan Golems/Jotun –[royal/Navy-blue stone] Lapis Lazuli, representing the bodies of water of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  14. First/Titan Golems/Jotun –[gray/brown stone] Rhodonite , representing the bedrock of the interiors (hollow cores) of the worlds
  15. First Dragons/Reptilians –[rainbow gemstone] Ethiopian Opal, representing Patala/Nagaloka; the highest (innermost; deepest) of the cave layers (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds, said to be lit by the gems in the hoods of the Super-Naga who dwell here (which sounds like Infinity Stones and/or synthetic life, not just bioluminescence)
  16. First Dragons/Reptilians –[red stone; ruby] Ruby, representing Rasatala; the next of the cave layer (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds, said to be home of the Demons
  17. First Dragons/Reptilians –[orange stone] Mexican Fire Opal, representing Mahatala; the next of the cave layer (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds, said to be a peaceful realm of many-hooded Naga
  18. First Dragons/Reptilians –[purple stone] Amethyst Cabochon, representing Talatala; the middle of the cave layer (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds, said to be home of a super-sorcerer demon-architect (not necessarily a Demon who does architecture, but perhaps a designer of Demons)
  19. First Dragons/Reptilians –[magenta stone] Bixbite, representing Sutala; the next of the cave layer (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds, said to be home of the impressive demon-king (half-human?), Bali
  20. First Dragons/Reptilians –[gold stone] Gold, representing Vitala; the next of the cave layer (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds, where ghosts are said to be frequent, where the Master of all gold/mines is said to be (perhaps his abilities including deciding where gold is, not just how best to find/extract it)
  21. First Dragons/Reptilians –[fuchsia stone] Pink Tourmaline, representing Atala; the cave layer (Patalas) of the mantles/”crust” of the worlds which is closest to the outer-surface lands, where the first female humans were said to’ve been created
  22. Second Titans/Jotun –[light-gray stone] White Petalite, representing the bedrock between the cave-layers and outer-surface of the worlds
  23. Second Titans/Jotun –[dark-blue stone] Blue Sapphire, representing the bodies of water of the outer-surface of the worlds
  24. Second Titans/Jotun –[dark-brown stone] Smoky Quartz, representing the soils beneath the surface-lands of the outer-surface of the worlds
  25. Second Titans/Jotun –[tan/green stone] Serpentine, representing the land-surfaces of the outer-surface of the worlds
  26. Second/Titan-Ents –[brown stone] Petrified Wood, representing the roots of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the outer-surface of the worlds
  27. Second/Titan-Ents –[dark-yellow stone] Yellow Beryl, representing the trunks of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the outer-surface of the worlds
  28. Second/Titan-Ents –[yellow-orange / green-with-lines stone] Tibetan Turquoise, representing the branches of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the outer-surface of the worlds
  29. Second/Titan-Ents –[red-orange (Autumn colors) stone] Andesine, representing the canopies of the great plants (World Trees; eldest Ents) of the outer-surface of the worlds
  30. Sylphs –Blue Spinel, representing the near-surface atmosphere of the outer-surface of the worlds
  31. Sylphs –Blue Fluorite, representing the middle atmosphere of the outer-surface of the worlds
  32. Sylphs –Blue Topaz, representing the near-Abyss (Space) atmosphere of the outer-surface of the worlds
  33. Sprites –Rainbow Fluorite, representing the low-orbit (near-land) “sphere” around the exteriors of the worlds
  34. Sprites –Lavender Quartz, representing the mid-orbit “sphere” around the exteriors of the worlds
  35. Valkyries/Auroras –Watermelon Tourmaline, representing the high-orbit (near-Abyss/Space) “sphere” around the exteriors of the worlds
  36. Moon Nymphs –[mystical-white stone] Moonstone, representing the Moon and other moons
  37. Petrified/”Fallen” Angels –Azurite, representing the asteroids; the fragmented/”lost” worlds
  38. Patrolling Angels –Silver, representing the comets (and those who dwell within these conscious cosmic-beings)
  39. Space Whales –Diopside, representing the “garden worlds” (Earth-like; habitable/familiar)
  40. Space Whales –[dark-tan stone] Boulder Opal, representing the former “garden worlds”; “paradise/s lost” / Golden Ages ended/paused
  41. Space Whales –[electrum stone] Electrum, representing the always-barren worlds
  42. Space Whales –[yellow stone] Fire Opal, representing the gas-giant worlds
  43. Space Whales –[red-brown stone with white] Star Ruby, representing the hyper-giant worlds
  44. Space Whales –[pink/black stone with white] Star Garnet, representing the dwarf-star worlds
  45. Younger Arch-angels/Portals –Spectrolite, representing the binary stars
  46. Younger Arch-angels/Portals –Zoisite, representing the triple stars
  47. Younger Arch-angels/Portals –Star Sapphire, representing the nova and supernovae
  48. Younger Arch-angels/Portals –Ametrine, representing the phasing/”blinking” stars
  49. Mystery/New –[gray-silver stone] “Meteorite”, representing the dim worlds; not quite distant or dark, but not bright/near, either
  50. Mystery/New –[dark-gray stone] Black Opal, representing the dark seen-worlds, such as the barren/cold ones distant from the stars/heat
  51. Mystery/New –[black-with-gray stone] Onyx, representing the dark/unseen worlds, such as “rogue” planets and planetoids
  52. Abyss/Loop –[black stone] Obsidian, representing Outer Space; the Interstellar Medium, and the ever-shifting loops/connections “down” there (“Black Holes”, etc.)

32 life-size statues are placed at even intervals along the ledges several stories above the ground-floor in this domed central room (4 per ledge of the octagonal central-room beneath the dome).  Each one is made in the exact image of the most well-formed (perfect/flawless/healthy/pure) example/member/representative of one of the races/species found to be compatible with the Inisfreeans.  They are:

  1. Adeline Reese –Fauns
  2. Alice Lucas –Transformers
  3. Ambrosia –Vampires
  4. Aryana Sheshna –Aghartans
  5. Auzdein –Demi-gods
  6. Bela Night –Were-panthers
  7. Daenerys Targaryen –Valyrians
  8. ​Divinity –Angels
  9. Dolores Abernathy –Hosts
  10. Elena –Werewolves
  11. Emma –’Mutants’
  12. Freyja –Vanir
  13. Golnesa Pesquet –Djinn
  14. Ixchel Xoc –Mayans
  15. Kara –Kryptonians
  16. Karolina Dean –Majesdanians
  17. Kendra Saunders –Thanagarians
  18. Kory Anders –Tamaraneans
  19. Liara –Asari
  20. Lillian Didina –Nymphs
  21. Lamia –Demons
  22. Maya –Pleiadians
  23. Oona –Fairies
  24. Qiturah –Draenei
  25. Sabrina Spellman –Witches/Sorceresses
  26. Sirena of Mako –Mermaids
  27. Tauriel –Elves
  28. Thema –Naga
  29. Thetis –Maiar
  30. Urvashi –Aspara
  31. Xephia –Elementals
  32. Xull’rae –Drow

All of them, in keeping with the timeless/holiest/nature tradition, of course, are naked and anatomically-correct.

 

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The Halls/Wings:

These buildings attached to each other, and some directly to the domed/central reading room, look more like normal (though luxuriously-appointed) library sections; they are not as colorful, and do not have statues or figurines in them.  They are not many stories tall, open all the way up to a ceiling of skylights, and their bookshelves are simply spaced and labeled.  You will find fancy desks and armchairs here, all of them entirely vegan and wood-free; we do not harm trees in the making of our facilities or furnishings.

  1. Angels & Dragons
  2. Asari
  3. Aspara (Nymphs)
  4. Demi-deities
  5. Demons (Angels)
  6. Drow (Elves)
  7. Elementals
  8. Elves (including Eldar)
  9. Fay; Fairies
  10. Inisfreeans (such as the biographies written by the ICVs about everyone welcomed into Inisfree, and reports/AARs of every expedition/campaign; an encyclopedia about every planet we went out to across all of time and Space, etc.)
  11. Kryptonians
  12. Naga
  13. Nymphs (including Dryads)
  14. Pleiadians
  15. Vampires
  16. Werewolves
  17. X-Men (Human ‘Mutants’; people with superpowers relative the modern-human norm/baseline)

Literature and other content/materials/records donated from the A.I. people/s, Atlanteans, Djinn, Majesdanians, Mermaids, Lemurians, Tamaraneans, Thanagarians, and Transformers (etc.) will be added to groups of floors in the buildings/’wings’ of species which do less writing (such as Angels and Dragons).

 

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Inventory Projection:

It is expected that over the next several millennia, all of the floors/shelves in this massive library will be filled up; they’ll be occupied by the best pieces/examples of writing from all the civilized/compatible realms.  During the first several years of Inisfree, this building was not even finished; its architectural footprint/foundation stood as a place-marker, with only a temporary ‘clone’ of the original Library of Congress to show what it would become and grow from, meaning most of its shelves were bare.  Today (in 2021), its physical structural expansion is complete, and 98% of its shelves do not yet have books on them (even though all 170,000,000 items from the original Library of Congress have copies here, plus all 400,000 scrolls from the Library of Alexandria, plus publications from all the other major libraries around the world), but hundreds arrive for our (ICV) review every year, so in the many thousands of years ahead… you can expect to see a steady filling of those shelves, perhaps at the rate of one (1) library-floor every ~423 Earth-years.

 

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Library Rules:

Distinguished from traditional smaller libraries in the Outlands, this one retains all copies of its books and other items; there is no “book checkout” process, and library cards are not required for identification/entry.  To checkout a book you find here, you can do that at the LHS library, or read it online via your iScroll, or (if you are close friends with King Auz, and permitted by him to visit his private home here in Inisfree) you can borrow a tracked copy from the bookshelves of his smaller (20-story) in-home library.  Your biometrics are your identification; no card or other product-based ID required.

Content is limited to what King Auz senses is appropriate for this era/Age and realm; only reading material found to be compatible with The Inisfreean Way is housed here.  Keep in mind, this is one of his personal libraries, and is on/in his personal/private property; like any individual’s home-office/study library or other bookshelves, it will only include what its builder/owner likes to keep stocked there.  Here are some examples of content not put in this library:

  • anything that promotes breeding, cosmetics, democracy, homosexuality (or bisexual / gender-confused males), obesity (or being ‘out of shape’ in any way), piercings (or any jewelry), religion (including state-ism), ugliness (anything Inisfreeans do not sense is attractive (correctly-formed)), or a non-vegan diet
  • corporate nonsense/evil (mandating “politically-correct” equality while forbidding respect toward those who gravitate toward balance, health, and purity, thus being oxymoronic; simultaneously demanding and banning equality)
  • human propaganda, such as their books full of misinformation about economics, equality, geography, government, healthcare (gene theory, germ theory, pharmaceutical products masquerading as safe or effective, etc.), history (claiming accurate records were kept by governments or religious scholars/writers), science (claiming any human science is “settled”), etc.
  • media-flooding; anything that is gibberish, i.e. a confusing random mix of truths with lies/inaccuracies
  • poorly-worded/written books; anything with an upsetting number of typographical errors
  • racism (such as against Dragons or Reptilians)
  • “scientific studies” done by humans (as virtually all of them were funded by disreputable organizations, thus not presenting any real science/conclusions/findings at all)
  • sexism (such as against men/masculinity)
  • tax law (or any laws written/passed by humans, as none of them were/are logical or even valid/legal)

As always, it is important and polite to keep silent when in this library.  If you must speak, do so quietly; a low whisper is best.  Any noise above/beyond that may be grounds for one of the ICV staff to gently escort you out to a place where higher decibel levels are permitted.

 

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Help with Materials:

Dozens of sites where you can legally download tens of thousands of books, plays, and more:

  1. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  2. The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  3. Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online (in fact, a lot of the books listed in subsequent sites here can be found at PG – yet we list the others as users may prefer different site’s interfaces, while the others below also help tailor searches for specific types of books or plays).
  4. Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
  5. Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  6. Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  7. Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  8. Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  9. The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  10. Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  11. Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  12. Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  13. us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  14. Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
  1. net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
  2. Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World
  3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories
  4. Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
  5. ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.
  6. Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
  7. The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
  8. Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
  9. Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
  10. Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
  11. The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
  12. Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
  13. John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
  14. SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights, Aesop’s Fables and more.
  15. Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.
  1. The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
  2. Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
  3. Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
  4. Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
  5. Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, from The Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
  6. com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
  7. com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
  8. com: On this site, you can download free poetry e-books.
  9. Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
  10. World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
  11. DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the more recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
  12. A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
  13. Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
  14. net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
  15. Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
  16. Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

If some of these sites are no longer “up”, keep Googling or searching offline until you find their replacements.

 

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Novels Excerpt:

Amber walked over to Lucifera and thoughtfully asked what she thought of the meal, if there was anything she’d like added to the next one, and if she had any dietary restrictions. Auz chatted with the last remaining group several feet away, and then joined Amber by Lucifera. It was time to walk over to one side of the Welcoming Square where they could check out one of Inisfree’s libraries. Lucifera was free to go barefoot everywhere if she wished, though footwear options were, of course, always available.

Lucifera, excited to hear about the libraries, said, “I love books! The realm of books is my sanctuary. I could stay all day and read, and let the stories swift me away on adventure and so on.”

Amber and Auz loved to hear that, both smiling big at her excitement. Looking to Auz, she raised her eyebrows just a hair to ask if he wanted her or another Inisfreean to take charge of the tour, as was usually the case, required by his schedule which kept him busy elsewhere. Resting his right hand around her left upper arm, he shook his head a couple times, “I’ll host this one personally.” Amber nodded, smiling, and hugged him farewell, saying to Lucifera with a wave, “Have fun!”

Off they strolled toward Inisfree’s larger version of the Library of Congress from Washington D.C., taking them past the three pairs of gigantic feet where the towering animatronic female statues were anchored to the mountain-side edge of the Welcoming Square, continuing their eternal sequence of poses. The temple-like steps of Inisfree’s Library of Congress drew near, each requiring a full stride to reach the next one in a single step. Inisfreean women stood guard at the tall open double-doors at the top.

They smiled to Auz as he approached and passed them, and he smiled back. To Lucifera, they bowed their heads, then smiled. Auz waited for her on the inside, motioning politely for her to lead the way, keeping her view unobstructed by his presence; he wanted her to enjoy the full effect of this and all the Inisfreean places.

The inside of this library, just in the entryway, looked more like a temple or palace ballroom than place for keeping books. Marble and other highly-regarded types of stone had been cut and polished to perfection, creating a terrace of masonry, cliff-like walls, a wrap-around balcony up above, and pairs of smooth columns holding up richly-decorated impost-spans and arches. In the corners of this room were cylindrical stairwells enclosed in what looked like castle turrets partially curving inward from the foyer’s outer walls. Inside their marble arches were not just individual staircases, though, but a combination of a border spiral-staircase of still more marble slabs, a slide as its railing, climbing bars and ropes, and a wall-less elevator platform that was itself a single wide marble slab.

Auz spoke in a hushed tone as he showed Lucifera around, guiding her by gestures from the foyer into the main study sanctuary with its art-covered ceiling hundreds of feet above them, “Any Inisfreean has in her memory the location of any book in the collection, and can retrieve it for you from the vaults below this first floor where they are stored for safe keeping. There are more than two hundred million books and other documents in the collection, and they come in every language we’ve heard of. Each Inisfreean can also translate for you.” Even the late Library of Alexandria would be hard-pressed to compare.

It was so quiet throughout the whole building, one could hear a pin drop. Very faint were the sounds of the turning of book pages, a carefully-placed footstep here and there, or the slow shutting of a sound-proofed door. Even though about half of the desks, booths, and wrap-around balcony areas were occupied, this massive main chamber of their library well in use throughout the day, everyone knew to be as silent as possible. The atmosphere was like that of a recording studio between sessions.

Some people used sign language to communicate in there, or even just a complex form of expressive glances, nods, and other slight mannerisms. The Inisfreeans had also developed a few forms of non-verbal communication, such as a touch-based Morse code, which came in handy in the library’s setting. Lucifera might notice one or two of them using it; small taps of fingertips on the forearms of friends seated nearby, blinking, or pure thoughts –easily heard by the minds of people throughout Inisfree, thanks to zero radio or microwave signal interference.

Lucifera in awe: “I am falling in love with this place!”

She had all the time she wanted to investigate the rooms, wings, many floors, and collection of the library. When a book wasn’t found on one of its many shelves, an Inisfreean was prompt in finding it in one of the vaults and bringing it up and out for her. The process of thinking up a desired title, and then having it retrieved and carried over, always took about two or three minutes.

Encyclopedias of angels were among those first recommended, and they included many masterful depictions of that race in painting form. These were not fanciful interpretations of modern religious texts, though; the encyclopedias presented to Lucifera were made by scribes and artists of the non-human races, preserved through antiquity in places humans could never intrude, and now made available here in this safest of the realms. Their works had never been rewritten to confuse or mislead.

There were even books with actual photographs of angels, glowing and winged and all –during times when humans didn’t have that technology, let alone the permission to record such beings. One of the books had maps of the worlds and other realms still dominated by angels, detailed down to the individual city streets and building functions. Another had the language of the angels, with examples of hundreds of their names written in it; circular sigils with their signature lines and shapes within.

The pages didn’t feel like paper in any of the books she got to hold in her hands; they seemed more like plastic or metal, never tearing, and inflammable. Water or other liquids falling upon them could not smear their ink nor otherwise damage them. Even the ones that were centuries or even millennia old were in remarkable condition –mint condition, as if brand new.

Shown one of the collections of books made by and for a pre-human race of giants, Lucifera got to feel the weight of books bigger and heavier than most children and pets were. Some of them were nearly as tall as she was, and took a couple people to turn their wide pages, each the size of a table-cloth. Their heavy covers were slowly laid down on the low reading table so as not to resound with a thud echoing through the rest of the library. The characters of the handwriting in them was not the size of normal human-written letters, either, but each as big as her open hand, and the penmanship was noticeably exceptional, especially given their dimensions.

“Remind me to introduce you to an angel or two I know is still in Inisfree this month,” Auz whispered in low notes so as to keep them from carrying over to those around them. “Some of them have told of waking up on Earth without knowing why; something to do with the Shift back in 2012, and we’ve noticed that by talking with one another about these matters… it helps restore once-hazy or hidden memories. Maybe the others who are here can help us finish restoring all we always were and are meant to be.”

 

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2023 Update:  Views from Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)

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2024 March/+:

We have started adding hardcopies (which we printed at our printing-press factory) of what we digitized from the recently-revealed/-publicized extensive library in a Tibetan monastery;

  • thousands of manuscripts –some 6′ “long” (tall), 1.5′ wide, written with gold letters, and bound in iron
  • thousands of murals, such as ones depicting history, such as the history of the monastery containing all this
  • ~84,000 books, including the one that weighs >500 kg (1,102.31 lbs.)
  • even the temporarily “lost” (relocated) literary and artistic works (which occurred when China occupied Tibet; 1950 and on)

All, of course, are checked by our supercomputers, ensuring they aren’t ‘laced’ with gibberish/misdirection/evil (something Outlander-humans were notorious for).

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April:  New book added:  A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind

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May:  2 new books:

  1. The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt –by Christopher Dunn
  2. Giza: The Tesla Connection: Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy –by Christopher Dunn

 

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