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August 26, 2005
How much for the lesbians in the window?
How much to check out the Lesbians for an hour?
Actualy, that’s just a free part of a new innititive at one Holland library...
A public library in Holland has been swamped with queries after unveiling plans to "lend out" living people, including homosexuals, drug addicts, asylum seekers, gipsies and the physically handicapped.
No, no, not like that!
[continuing directly] The volunteers will be borrowed by users of the library, in Almelo, who can take them to a cafeteria, and ask them any questions they like for up to an hour, in a scheme designed to break down barriers and combat prejudice.
Basically, these people are being rented so that they can give specialized knowledge that most people wouldn’t have. Quite frankly, “what’s it like to have sex as a woman, let alone a lesbian, is something I’ll never know. This seems like a great program, it just needs to be taking up a notch. How would you like to be able to borrow an astronaut? Or a basketball player? Intriguing idea...
Posted by Andrew at August 26, 2005 01:00 AM
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Ya know, it's a shame that this program has to be so limited. There are only so many volunteers available, after all, and only so many seats in the cafeteria. So there's a limit on how many life stories can be learned here.
It's too bad there's not some other way people can share the stories of their lives. Ya know, they could like -- I dunno, maybe write the stories down, so that they can be copied over and over again. And then maybe the story pages could be collected between covers. Sort of what you might call a book.
And then -- oh, I just had a REALLY cool idea! And then you could have this place -- I dunno, maybe even a publicly funded place -- where you could gather a bunch of these "book" thingies all in one place, so anyone who wanted could find them easily. Let them borrow the books, even. Oh, the people would probably need longer than 45 minutes per book, and they wouldn't necessarily buy any coffee. But I'll bet there's room for more than 45 minutes of life story between the covers, so it's a trade off.
I wonder what we should call a place like that?
Posted by: Martin L. Shoemaker at August 26, 2005 08:22 AM