At work, in the reception desk of a prestigious theater school, it’s more or less comfortable that day. Ice storm there was. Collateral damage obviously followed. These involve power outages!
Yippee! The duty arrived ! Amazing ! Four titles related to reading adorn the front page!
In the country of Uncle Donald, oops, of Uncle Sam, censorship contaminates the bibliographic universe. There is even talk of removing legal protection from librarians. Charges of incitement to crimes could then be filed against them because of their literary choices. Scandalous! Is it funnier on the Joblo side? Not really. The columnist tells us that “less than 1% of manuscripts” that land in publishing houses are published. Catastrophe for the fauna which dreams of seeing its words published. And what about the drag queens who stir up riots by their presence in libraries? Here, a different point of view from that of Christian Rioux, who regrets the subversive side of yesteryear of these marvelous creatures that the little ones call… the Madame-Monsieur! Is drag-hosted story time really “a mediocre re-education session meant to propagate the flat morality of gender theory”? A little further in the newspaper, another worrying title. And if, one day, the paper no longer speaks…
I gaze at my ink-stained fingers. Then my gaze falls on the tiny library of the establishment where I am…
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