A girl in my sociology class said my life would be wasted as a librarian and that I should put my powers of oratory to use; that my skill with words and rhetoric must be applied or else I would be doing myself a disservice. Her words rose in me an immediate concern over what my place in this city is. She suggested I become a lawyer or a teacher. As I would find myself at the front of revolutionary deeds espousing supposedly dangerous ideas in either charge…
to be continued, class begins.
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Being a librarian is bad to the bone. Well actually I’m not a librarian so I don’t know, but I do work in a library, and I can tell you – it’s much better (for me) than an oratory position. Being an ambitious educator or lawyer is a nice dream. But the practices of both are (almost) purely ceremonial and are only effective in their respective environments (the classroom and the courtroom). It’s all about the books.