The Henry Miller Library
Founded by Emil White
‘Where Nothing Happens’
Fun fact: The Henry Miller Library was the first business in Big Sur to have a Web site. It went live in the mid-90s and thanks to the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” we can see how it looked back in the good old days of budget surpluses and grunge.
Here are three snapshots of henrymiller.org taken on July 8, 1997 (!) at 1:37 pm, June 13, 2000 at 3:30 am, and February 2, 2003 at 12:53 am!
The Henry Miller Library guarantees all guests the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn. It is not the proper role of the Library to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive. There are many books and stories to read, to write, to tell, and to listen to.
We hope to learn from different ideas, why and how they come to be, and what values they’re premised on. To always critique and argue in good-faith. Some ‘binaries’ that we propose on our bookshelves are: Capitalism vs. Socialism | Keynesian economics vs. Classical economics | Deontology vs. Consequentialism | Empiricism vs. Rationalism | Liberalism vs. Conservatism | Democracy vs. Authoritarianism | Cartesianism vs. Darwinism | Realism vs. Romanticism | Classicism vs. Modernism | Objectivism vs. Relativism | Virtue ethics vs. Deontological ethics | Monotheism/Polytheism/Pantheism | Protestantism vs. Catholicism | Atheism vs. Theism
What a wonderful world!
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