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NYPL or New York PauL Oxygenizes New York library
After a night without oxygen, which actually made Jaap wake up in the middle of the night screaming for air, we got out of our hotel at 8.00 am to meet Paul Holdengraber at the New York Public Library. Expectations were high as we knew the man is becoming well known in New York for bringing great nights with debate on hot issues. These events are bringing more than 1000 people in the library and only 25% are frequent visitors. No wonder if you book Bill Clinton and Martin Scorcese. If it were not just the library that kept us spellbound it would have been Paul. What passion, what energy, what great intelligence and hunger for knowledge. I rarely met a man that made such a first impression. Talking about stories and Shanachies he came up with the wonderful quotation:” When an old man dies, a library disappears”. That one is for you dad. I think we got almost an hour of great material, which will definitely go online someday. Away from the marble floors and the old wooden desks we hit
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Not too much Joni, Erik. Try some Presidents of the USA. Once, Jaap and i had the idea of working in the New York lib. You remember Jaap? Is Charlotte the place with the library with that nice kidssite you once showed me?
Have fun and be good, Gon
We are looking forward to your landing here in Charlotte. Of course, now I have to bribe/negotiate the powers that be to park that massive 27 foot RV spaceship that you all are navigating the highways and byways of the great US. You guys are amazing. Keep on trukin’ brothers.
There can’t be to much Joni, the refuge of the road, yes, indeed.
I see that my last comment has disappeared somehow. Hm.
Well, guys, take care of each other, drive carefully, and have a good time!
Nice mothership, hope she doesn’t mate.
And Erik, nice quatotation indeed, maybe it still is possible to put that under the photograph of our dad you already posted on this site.
It is a quotation that deserves to be remembered.
Pim
I’am reading your library and other adventures with pleasure.Keep storytelling.
Loek
Great interview! I love: “I already disagree with what I just said.”