"Now the world is like a big papaya."

From CERN October 24, 2011

The subject line comes from an article in the January 3 New York Times on the many languages (59!) represented in the collections of the libraries in Queens, NY.

(I confess that I'm picturing little old Chinese ladies shlepping those suitcasefuls of romances back and forth and grinning to myself. After my mom retired, she discovered the joys of staying up late to watch just one more episode of some cheesy Chinese soap opera. I'm glad that she had time for that.)

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