Who were the Librarians?
Whew! What a weekend. I’m still a little woozy. The Gutterminds were up till the wee hours saturday playin’ Stones, Beatles, Toxik Idols, you know the classics. Sunday was a family barbecue. It was my grandson Jared’s twenty-first birthday. He’s the youngest of the grandkids. Naturally some of us wound up playing more music last night. We were around the campfire till the rings started fading.
. . . but that’s not what this post is about is it?
I’ve mentioned the Founder’s Librarians. Not everyone knows their history. They weren’t always known as the Librarians. At one time they called themselves Wizards. They never practiced magic but they had access to technologies that no one else on Harappa had back before the Arrival.
Marcus Johnson’s idea was to create a totally new paradigm on Harappa. To do so he wanted to erase the public memory of Earth. In the Founder’s mind Earth was a failure. They had ruined what was once a lovely planet.
Yet the Founder understood that the history of humanity deserved to be preserved. A significant portion of the cargo holds of the Arc of the Millenium carried as much art, historical artifacts, books, media of all kinds and more, everything that Marcus Johnson found worthwhile from Earth culture and history.
This treasure was stored in Terraholm, a complex dug into Mount Kailas on Harappa. One of their three primary tasks was to caretake this collection.
Not long after I met my wife, Ina, I went to Terraholm with her and Dorian Thain. Ina introduced us to movies. We saw, American Grafitti, Close Encounters, The Best in Each Other and more. We saw origional art from many of the ancient Earth masters. Then we found the music library.
That’s when I found Rock n’ Roll music from Earth’s Twentieth Century. I’ve been given a lot of credit over the years for this but really I only just found the old recordings and learned how to play the stuff. Berry, Perkins, Enders those guys were the ones who created the music. I just shone a light on what should have never been forgotten in the first place.
Tomorrow we’ll talk about one of the Librarian’s other main tasks from the Founder.
Never mix red wine with Oodo. ; }
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 87
Earth Year 2479
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