#whatcher-ofthe-sky

[rapha-reads]

1 and 6 for the quarantine asks? :)

Hello! Thanks for dropping by. :)

1. what weird new hobby have you picked up?

Does baking bread count as a weird hobby?

Actually, there's something else : on Instagram, from Monday to Friday each week, I post a story each day, with a photographic theme and an artist of the week. Last week, the artist was Two Steps From Hell and the theme was black and white pics of roses and flowers with the only colour being the flower. Week before, it was Within Temptation and tea and flowers. This week, it's raining and I'm out of ideas, so we're following a couple of miniature cats on adventures in the house with my favorite French band, Boulevard des Airs.

I am VERY bored.

6. learned anything about yourself?

Well. I think I finally found out what I want to do with my life. I want to be surrounded by books, to works with books and for books. And this means a lot of things. I want to help kids find their way in a library, but I also want to be in charge of a bookshop. I want to organise book fairs and I want to organise archives and collections of knowledge for future generations. Preserving knowledge and history and transmitting them to our children and our children's children is extremely important and crucial for the survival of humanity.

I'm re-reading Dragonriders of Pern right now, and one of the biggest problems the Pernians have is that, by forgetting where they come from and everything their ancestors knew and could do, they are often defenceless when a new danger that's actually an old one arrives on the planet. Like, say, an epidemic that strongly resembles flu but no one knows what flu is anymore because every record of the illness has been lost...

And how do you do all of that? You compile books and you make sure you have as extensive and clear and comprehensible a reserve of knowledge you have. A library that will survive the passage of time, or can be reconstructed when needs be (and that's why technology is important too) and can be understood even when languages evolve and change (dictionaries, people).

Anyway, I'm rambling, but you can see where I'm going. Other thing I rediscovered is that of you give me the chance I'll talk your ear off about things I'm passionate about. Nothing new here.

Ask me : quarantine asks.