The Chronicles Of Peculiar Desires In The Briti...

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Finally, consider the great domed Reading Room (now mostly a visitors’ space). For over a century, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and hundreds of obscure researchers sat at its desks. But the peculiar desire here is subtler: the desire for anonymous proximity . The Chronicles of Peculiar Desires in the Briti...

The "chronicle" style of storytelling in this context mirrors real medieval British works like Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain A small, Victorian-era snuff box—cataloged as "Item 402: