London Memories: Book Maze

Southwark Centre, just down the Thames from Shakespeare's Globe, the Tate Modern, and Borough Market, had a very interesting art installation this summer.  aMAZE Me!  A Book Maze.  Like a classic English hedge maze, except indoors and made from 250,000 books-- novels, manifestos, fiction, non-fiction, plays, children's books, romance novels, good books, bad books, cookbooks, gardening books, everything.  You can read the books, too, the ones on the top layer of the maze, as long as you put them back when you're done.  You walk through the books, rising higher and higher on all sides of you until you reach the center, and you're completely surrounded by books piled so high you can't see over them.  It's an awed feeling-- all that people have written, all that people have read, all that knowledge and all those stories and you standing in the middle of it all.

Even Joss Whedon is represented!  Yay, Angel novelization! ;)

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