Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.