Books About Books

Every section in the "New School Library" is mixed, and the topical dividers are only guesstimate guides. It might take a minute to filter an area for primary content. The knowledge section is about writing books. It is, as they used to say in the publishing business, a writerly library. One volume in the first few shelves is a piece called "The Book at War", by Andrew Pettegrew, who wrote about the destruction of many German city libraries and its libraries of state in 1933. Germany was an old society, and it's works predated the invention of the printing press and mass communications by centuries. For this reason, many of the scribal manuscript volumes were irrevocably lost, there were German histories, maps, and other important documents that had never been produced in more than one edition. Being government owned volumes, they likely consisted mostly of business and tax records, census data, maps, and laws passed by magistrate's courts locally in the Crusader Era, especially prior to the Luther Revolution. The destruction of real property in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s extended across buildings and their contents, focused on the Dark Age Cathedrals and the Bible. The Bible itself survives, it had met the machine press before 1933, and existed in surviving nations as well as both Germany and Italy, as a matter of fact. That original written Bibles were destroyed is also true, the Hitler Youth burned their own inherited family volumes, but others are still in existence. In terms of property damage, it was architecture that suffered the most, although both kinds of original artifact are irreplaceable.

The question of property damage and death in the time of the Third Reich is best left for Lincoln, as it was by the Spaniard, who had said that law refused to recognize slave status, rendering all human casualties deaths, an important distinction in considering property destruction or major fire investigations. A conscientious investigator or jurist would first ask who had died, after all. The deaths have to be counted the same, each death is one death, and the deaths cannot be double counted as both casualties and property loss, as the Nazi religion includes the Hindu doctrine of reincarnation, which is anathema. Also, in defense of the repeal of Kansas-Nebraska, the deaths of enslaved people during the war cannot be counted as three fifths of a death, which would lend itself to sodomite amalgamation of the numbers of incarcerated victims, lending itself to the Nazi political program's ideology.

Other than the status of the individual authors as addressed by the first shelf ("knowledge section"), the axial questions raised are as to originality, completeness, and means of promulgation or publication and dissemination. the section also includes technical computer programmer's handbooks for modern electronic self-publishers, as well as guides to collection and collation of other's works with booksellers shown as examples. This shelf includes an encyclopedia, which is an original work, but a collection of shortened commentaries on someone else's writing such as the collections on philosophy by Russell, Grayling, or Durant is not an original encyclopedia, it is an introductory perspective and commentary akin to Cliff's Notes.