At the city library, shelves lined with countless booksTo place the symbols on the page ‘tis harder than it looks.Travel back a thousand years to China and Bi ShengInnovation, moving type, the ease that it did bring..Ideas put to paper, metal pieces moved aroundEventually came Gutenberg with a new press to astound.Humankind, imagination, discoveries change the earthPrinting Press. Sextant. Medicine. Ponder their vast worth..Long after the wood block prompted thinking in reverseHot metal typesetting transformed the universe.More can read. This plants a seed. Vast idea disseminationRevolution in the sciences. Knowledge democratization..These days to some the tomes upon the shelves seem antiquatedBasking in the glow of screens, easy to feel satiated.Paper, ink and binding: an experience tactileWonders of the printed page commonplace yet all the while.There is a book never returned, a rarity it seemsRobbing the Rails in Jimmy’s hands: stuff of criminal dreams..
At the city library, shelves lined with countless booksTo place the symbols on the page ‘tis harder than it looks.Travel back a thousand years to China and Bi ShengInnovation, moving type, the ease that it did bring..Ideas put to paper, metal pieces moved aroundEventually came Gutenberg with a new press to astound.Humankind, imagination, discoveries change the earthPrinting Press. Sextant. Medicine. Ponder their vast worth..Long after the wood block prompted thinking in reverseHot metal typesetting transformed the universe.More can read. This plants a seed. Vast idea disseminationRevolution in the sciences. Knowledge democratization..These days to some the tomes upon the shelves seem antiquatedBasking in the glow of screens, easy to feel satiated.Paper, ink and binding: an experience tactileWonders of the printed page commonplace yet all the while.There is a book never returned, a rarity it seemsRobbing the Rails in Jimmy’s hands: stuff of criminal dreams..