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More details on yesterday. The kids stayed home with my parents while introverte and I thrilled to the city.

Our first major stop of the day was the Morgan Library. It's one of those priceless New York gems that you don't often think of when planning your day, but I'm glad it came to mind. They have one of the 25 original printed copies of the Declaration of Independence. It's just hanging on the wall in the corridor. One thing that I noted about it was that it used a double em-quad after every full stop; I've always thought that was a typewriter-induced style but apparently not. I'll have to eat some crow at work next week.

Their exhibit of near eastern seals was extraordinary. The Sargent hanging in the staircase was wonderful. (introverte said "They have a Sargent just hanging in the middle of the staircase?" to which I replied, "Well, they probably didn't think of it as a Sargent, they thought of it as a picture of Mom.")

I should note that the new building is really a brilliant piece of architecture. It complements the older library wonderfully, while feeling sleek and modern.

I spotted an error on a wall placard (they had a discussion of some of Morgan's Hebraica, but mislabelled two pages from a Psalter as being from the Talmud).

Then I walked into the main library room, and a grin spread from ear to ear and I got giddy. What a marvelous room, three stories tall, filled from top to bottom with first editions. Some of these are first editions of 450-year-old bibles. One of them is a Gutenberg Bible.

After we were done there, I went to the NYPL on 42d Street while introverte did some supply shopping in the fashion district. At the Library I went to the third floor and saw their Gutenberg Bible. (Two in the space of an hour. Wow.)

Tani's up, so we're going to look at the tree that blew down next door now. I'll come back later to serve up my reviews of Deuce and Curtains.

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