treasure island shutting down library fund
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With apologies to the greatest novels of all time for the liberties I’ve taken below.
Treasure Island city commissioners have decided that they will no longer be funding the Treasure Island library:
Cutting the Treasure Island library funding means residents of that city no longer will have free access to the Gulf Beaches system, which is located in nearby Madeira Beach and also serves Redington Beach, North Redington Beach and Redington Shores.
However, Treasure Island residents would be allowed to spend $100 per household to get a library card that is good in all the libraries that are members of the Pinellas Public Library cooperative, which includes the Gulf Beaches library.
Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret.
The great Gatsby, in his infinite jest, has decided to do some housekeeping.
The blind assassin, the watchmen and all the king’s men have decided to play it as it lays while things fall apart. They will claim their eyes were watching God, but they should know better. To kill a mockingbird in the prime of Miss Jean Brodie is akin to playing Ragtime while struggling under the net.
It seems the power and the glory got to city commissioners, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest in determining that library funding should be sent to slaughterhouse-five for the big sleep.
Go tell it on the mountain: Libraries will soon be gone with the wind, books will turn into a handful of dust, and you will be reduced to a lord of the flies, right here along the Tropic of Cancer.
Portnoy’s complaint includes the recognitions that it is all about money. The man who loved children will no longer be able to check out the golden notebook without deliverance of a $100 check.
You may as well go to the lighthouse, become the moviegoer, visit an animal farm or head out on the road along a passage to India.
Oh, and city commissioners will attempt to avoid atonement by taking a trip down Revolutionary Road under the sheltering sky to avoid the sound and the fury of the white noise generated by the crying of lot 49.
It’s really an American tragedy.
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September 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
[...] now, the most-buzzed about fights are happening in the beach communities. Treasure Island is withdrawing its funding from the Gulf Beaches Library System. Families will now have to pay $100 to borrow books from [...]