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John Berger on tenderness, the dead, freedom, bikes, with Michael Silverblatt. 2002. (8:55 – 11:15)

“Put all the images in language in a place of safety and make use of them, for they are in the desert, and it's in the desert we must go and look for them.”

Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love, epigraph

Political cartoon showing Karl Marx as Prometheus, chained to a printing press while the eagle of Prussian censorship rips out his liver as figures representing the citizens of Rhineland plead fruitlessly for mercy.

“Prometheus is the most eminent saint and martyr in the philosophical calendar.” – Karl Marx

The Invention of Book Printing, 1600

Laocoön by William Blake Laocoön was a Trojan priest. He and his two young sons were attacked by giant serpents, sent by the gods. According to Apollodorus, it was Apollo who sent the two sea serpents, because Laocoön had insulted Apollo by having sex with his wife in front of his cult statue.

The Public library of Cincinnati’s first bookmobile, circa 1927

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