Library

**Author** | 20

The **Library** is one of the main areas accessible from the Nexus, through the book.

## Features

A library with walls bearing a cityscape at night, it consists of eight rows of bookshelves and two benches. There are a total of **9** books that slide in and out periodically, which you can peruse when interacted with. They contain different texts, such as diaries and poetry.

**First Book on the Left, First Row:**

* book txt 1-1

```
Window.
He taps at the window.
Has it been already an hour?
And yet he does not quit.
The window reveals no change.
He taps at the window.
Has it already been a week?
And yet he does not quit,
The window reveals no change.

```

* book txt 1-2

```
What are you?
are you a person?
are you a thing?
are you alive?
are you dead?
do you exist?
do you not exist?
can you prove you exist?
can you not prove you exist?
can someone prove you are here?
can someone not prove you are here?
are you
are you
are you

are you not here?

so, you should not be here.
so, you should not exist.

you must leave leave leave leave leave leave
you must disappear disappear disappear disappear disappear
leave disappear leave disappear
LEAVE DISAPPEAR LEAVE DISAPPEAR
LEAVE! DISAPPEAR! LEAVE! DISAPPEAR!

```

* book txt 1-3

```
I am the god of this world.
If I did not exist, this world would not be perceived.

I am the dust of this world.
Even if I did not exist, this world would be complete.

I am the most enlightened state of this world.
If my knowledge did not spread, this world would be blind.

I am the most foolish of this world.
Because of my knowledge, this world cannot be understood.

I am.

I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am
I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am
I am I am I am I am I am I am

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
...

```

**Second Book on the Left, First Row:**

* book txt 20-1

```
**1st page:**
The Elderly People of the Festival

The wall-climbing festival began.
The first to climb are
the elderly people whose feet are injured.
Getting help from someone else,
moving limply,
they are not climbing by themselves.
When they descended, they made a mistake
and were violently flung to the ground.
The earth was in an uproar.
The elderly people had
been carried away and disappeared somewhere.

**2nd page:**

On the bus

My aunt decorates my hair
with ornaments.
With a frown,
I take them out.
The hair ornament rolls onto the floor
and breaks.

**3rd page:**

Augmenting Friends
From the back of the bus,
a woman with a beautiful voice
can be heard singing.
I saw my classmates
becoming taller and taller.

**4th page:**

Hina Doll

​When you get off the bus,
the countryside landscape
is spread before you.
In a field at the center of the village,
stands a Hina Doll,
towering over the houses.

```

**Third Book on the Left, First Row:**

* book txt 145-1

```
『Caring for your drought monkey ①』

• Although it has a mixed diet, too much moisture
  can cause its stomach to rupture.
• Spread sawdust in its cage.
  Finely shredded newspaper is also acceptable.
• After cleaning its cage, it’s also good to replenish its water supply.
• Never keep two drought monkeys.
• Drought monkeys mimic the actions of their owners. It's a sign of affection.
• If it somehow learns to speak,
  poison your drought monkey immediately.

```

**Fourth Book on the Left, First Row:**

```
(to be translated)

```

**Fifth Book on the Left, First Row:**

* book txt 893 1-1 to 1-3

```
When I fell
my "head"
got scraped.

+ A picture of Surimuki

```

**First Book on the Right, First Row:**

* book txt mudai

```
stop it.
stop it.
your heart, which I touched strains to stop.

show me inside your heart.
I'll paint it out with this green crayon.

if it calms down show it to me once again.

your heart will once again this time,
be together with mine, become green.

```

**Second Book on the Right, First Row:**

* book txt mudai2

```
Someone's shouting.
Greedy little me grabs as many voices as I can
and shoves them in a tin.

They might be useful.

My heart flutters when I chuck it in the fireplace.

The voices become thick, melting inside the tin
Some of them get burned
The scent is so delicious
It makes my greedy little voice come out.

```

**Third Book on the Right, First Row:**

* book txt mudai3

```
Trashcan.

In any case, I need a trashcan.
I have something to throw away.

With teary eyes I searched around,
and at last, I finally found one.

With a trashcan in hand,
now I just need something to throw away.

```

**Fourth Book on the Right, First Row:**

* book txt yume

```
Have a nice dream

```