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Dawn @sharppencil.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A plaque on the Library Walk between Grand Central Station and the New York Public Library, an apparent preview to the actual reading room in the library a block away.

A brass plaque that reads:
In the reading room in the New York Public Library
All sorts of souls were bent over silence reading the past,
Or the present, or maybe it was the future, persons
Devoted to silence and the flowering of the imagination …
- Richard Everhart (1904- ) “Reading Room, The New York Public Library”

A room with high arched windows, dark furnishings, overhead lights, and large study tables with lamps, where several people are bent over in silence …