There are only Two or Three Human Stories

"There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."
- Willa Cather (1873- 1947) O Pioneers!

This is from the Library Walk between the Lion Library and Grand Central (yes the Lion Library is it's official name, thank you). And thank you Reid Harris Cooper for taking these photos, I hope it was warm out. Thank you Willa. And thank you Robert. I think they ate the same thing for breakfast that day. Or perhaps they sat together in study hall (I know, I know not possible.) Still, I'd like to have been there.

"Someone is reading in a deepening room
Where something happens, something that will come

To happen again. Something that will happen again as many times
As she is reading in as many rooms

What happens outside that calm like water braiding
Over green stones? The ones of little reading

Or who never read for love, are many places
They are in the house of power, and many houses..."

- Robert Pinsky (1940-) "Library Scene"