These timeless messages from Senator Claiborne Pell in 1968 resonate with us even today. His address on the importance of libraries and literacy programs highlights how these resources answer the millions of questions we have and why we should utilize them.
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📽️ : Senator Claiborne Pell. Literacy and Libraries, 1968. University of Rhode Island.
"When I asked why he was so thin and if he had an illness, he replied that he just liked to starve. To be honest, I never saw him eat during the days on tour, he only drank a lot of tea and was happy when there were hot drinks backstage. The others were satisfied with beer.
I looked at him a little helplessly. What was wrong with him? The self harm thing I could just understand as a show element, but was it okay for him to starve on purpose as an act of self-torture? Did he want to vanish into thin air? Did he feel his body as an enemy? As worthless?
Why does a person do such a thing to themselves, I asked myself. I wasn't a psychologist and didn't want to dig deeper. We didn't know each other enough for that and I thought it would be uncomfortable for him to talk about it. But something must have gone seriously wrong in his development."- Abo Alsleben "MAYHEM Live in Leipzig – Wie ich den Black Metal nach Ostdeutschland brachte" 🦇