So who burned the Library of Alexandria? War did three times,
inadvertently. Religious bigotry did twice, on
purpose. We are right to
grieve. Only one in ten of the major Greek classics
survived. Nothing like
Alexandria's library was seen again for a thousand
years.
-- Stewart Brand "Burning Libraries"
Whole Earth. Winter 1999
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