Stragues and things

there's a whole range of strings and things called strings and things

including cheese strings, yollies, and cheese shapes.

Find them all in the cheese and yock-a-tile.

Strings and things.

You're listening to away with words, the show about language, and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

I want to recommend a book that's been around for a few years,

but I never tire of going back to it.

It's called the Public Library, a photographic essay,

and it's a celebration of America's public libraries.

It features 150 gorgeous photos by Robert Dawson

and it also has essays contributed by Bill Moyers and Patchett and Lamott and others,

but Grant my favorite line in the whole book is from Barbara King's Solver.

In her essay, she writes about how her local librarian helped her catch the scent of a world

beyond anything she'd ever imagined.

And she says, getting to read about other people's lives snapped her out of her surly adolescence.

And she writes, I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian

who crosses my path on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Oh, I love that.

A fearsome mind to throw my arms around librarians.

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