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  HOMER & POE Two Poets.  Three Thousand Years. Eight Billion Voices. & Precious Little Listening. A Midnight Conversation  in the Library of Congress A tale of words, wisdom, technology, humanity, and the extraordinary ability of mankind to say absolutely everything while understanding almost nothing. Chapter One: The Night the Books Began to Whisper There are certain places in this world where time behaves rather badly. Old churches, ancient forests, forgotten railway stations, dusty theatres and, occasionally, libraries. Especially libraries. For a library is not merely a building filled with books. It is a building filled with people who refuse to die. Shakespeare still argues with kings.  Dickens continues to expose poverty.  Jane Austen quietly observes the absurdities of human behaviour. Oscar Wilde remains gloriously unimpressed by respectable society. Somewhere on a shelf, a philosopher who has been dead for two thousand years is still waiting f...