I've been here all day and all afternoon yesterday and probably all day tomorrow! Its everything a girl could ever want from a library. Huge rooms with lofted ceilings and dark green furniture filled with old looking books of every kind. I have been sitting here reading to my heart's content about the development of the Swedish fashion industry which is fascinating! If you ever need a break, there is a restaurant/cafe in the basement, and you can buy cool (?, i think so) gifts at the information desk, like metal bookends in the likeness of Selma Lagerloff, or August Strindberg, or Statshuset. Also, to the rear of the library lies Humlegården, a classy park that contains the sculpture of Carl Linnaeus that was made by a sculptor that I am supposedly related too.
Why is it that you spend a long time somewhere (I think 4 months is a long time) and don't meet your one true love until the very last week? I want to come here every day for the rest of my life; its true love!!!
It kind of reminds me of entering a temple when you come inside. You aren't allowed to bring any coats or outside bags inside the library because they house all the important documents of Sweden or something of the sort, so you have to go through this brief transformation into a worthy visitor in the coat room before you are allowed to enter. And its just such a beautiful building. I will have to look up who the architect is.
But also I have to keep reading because I only have 2 more days left to finish a 10 page paper on masculinity in fashion in Sweden, or at least that's what I hope its about, and I hope to work at the student pub for the second to last time tomorrow night and probably consume a fair amount of alcoholic beverages, so I really need to book it today before the library closes at 8. I just get overcome with this GIANT LOVE whenever I come here!
Masculinity in Swedish men's fashion? You mean like tight excessively long black pants with a too big t-shirt and horned rimmed glasses?
ReplyDeleteWhat better to fall in love with in a foreign country than the library? It's got answers, and more questions, and food (nearby), it doesn't care how long you stay (as long as it's open), and it won't care if you visit other libraries! Sounds perfect to me!
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