The Archive Whisperer: Part One

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Published on September 8, 2023 8:36:26 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hcM397gv4

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Manhattan’s New Amsterdam library was one of the city’s hidden gems. Primarily frequented by locals and academics, it was sufficiently Upper West enough to avoid the casual tourist drop-ins found further south. Within, the Luminis Reading Room was the gem within the gem. The true heart of a building which had survived much and preserved all. There was an old saying amongst its librarians. That anything which arrived at Luminis never left. It often applied to anyone too. No-one was allowed to take anything out, and all the library did was consume the world’s knowledge, one manuscript at a time, in its insatiable appetite to never lose sight of the past. But the reading room was only a front for where the real work took place. Several floors below the Luminis were the New Amsterdam’s archives. Inhabited by the kinds of literary mole people one only found in the deepest of reads, and the darkest of the world’s corners.