Has anyone else seen the movie The Day After Tomorrow in which the world
suffers a global weather disaster? Some of the characters take refuge in
the New York Public Library. Most of the survivors try to hike out, but
some of them stay, including a thin, washed-out male librarian and a
gray, older female librarian. Stereotypes still much in evidence! The
male refused to burn the Gutenberg Bible and the female looked up the
symptoms of an ailing character finding out what was needed to save her.
Yeah team!
A major giggle occurs when the male librarian and a female student are
arguing about whether they should burn a book of philosophy. To end the
arguement another student suggests there a set of TAX LAW they could
agree to burn.
It's got great special effects, unexpected humor and the preaching is
NOT piled thicker than usual in a environmental movie.
Question: Why did they burn the books when there were plenty of wooden
tables and chairs in the reading room?
Ruth Bodapati, cataloguer
Law Library Association of St. Louis
St. Louis Missouri
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