An Abandoned Library

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The library stands as a byword for order, calm, quiet contemplation. Shoes muffled by carpets, voices quelled by stern shushes, excesses reserved for the dusty pages of the classics. Is this what makes this image of a Russian library in abandoned disarray so moving and bizarre? Books should be ordered by the Dewey Decimal system, not anarchically restyled into a papery ocean of knowledge. Who allowed this disorde...